Bollocks! you telling me that if *insert name of white actor/sportsman here* would have been in exactly the same situation that there wouldn't have been as much outrage or publicity? It's the celebrity part that's the bit that sticks in peoples throats.
Not to the same level, no. He was a black man that white americans had come to accept and love, because he had pandered to them for years. Then he appeared to stab them in the back. That was why when this whole thing happened, it enraged them so much. Everything in the world always comes back to race at the end of it all, as the racist police officer who planted the gloves (i forget his name) proved. Phil Spector has run around for years shooting and kicking women, and men to death and in general nobody gives a shite.
And not to be a pedant, but please quote the rest of my post instead of isolating that line to one sentence, where it is then taken out of context. I've noticed people do that alot on this forum. I'm not sticking up for him over the murder, i don't care if he went to prison. I'm not an OJ fan at all. what I was happy about is the fact Cochran beat the LAPD and scored a victory for black people.