I Like OJ Simpson

By admin

If he shows up at my house empty handed I will invite him in, feed him, clothe him, and give him a place to sleep. Seriously. The main reason I like the guy is because you hate him. If it wasn’t for that I probably wouldn’t have an opinion about him one way or the other. It makes him a very interesting character in our society. He’s always good for news and gossip items, and as a satirical blogger you can’t have a much better subject for material. But it really isn’t him that makes him so interesting, it’s you.

That’s right, you. You are the one that makes him who he is, and you are the one who has developed his character into a media magnet. You are responsible for the nightly news broadcasting to Mars every time he steps on a crack in the sidewalk. It’s all your doing. If you didn’t give a hoot about the guy, if you didn’t hate him, he’s be a nobody. Ironically, that’s probably a lot closer to the justice which you think he rightly deserves.

I don’t have any idea what’s going to happen to him now. He was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in one of those cases that involves parents and kids and divorces. Private family stuff, but when everyone hates you nothing is private family stuff any more. The jury hates him just as much as you do. But he very well might skate again and be back out on the golf courses in South Florida soon. How would that grab you?

Why do you hate him so much? For that matter, why do you hate anyone that much? As a matter of fact, why do you let the emotion of hate creep into your life and consume you like this? Is this something your life is benefiting from?

Truth is, you don’t even know the guy. You don’t know if he murdered his wife or not. You really don’t! He was charged with a crime and acquitted through due process of the American justice system. There are of thousands of guys just like him who you don’t care about at all. Just watch some crime-time TV and you’ll see plenty of them, all deserving the same amount of energy and emotion that you spend when thinking about The Juice.

Hate is one of the ugliest things consuming our society. If you heard the latest news about OJ and thought to yourself, Good! …then I would guess that you are dangerously consumed by it. You shouldn’t be happy over bad news for other people (whom you don’t even know), and you shouldn’t let the media dictate your emotions.

Be your own person for crying out loud. Besides, can you imagine what it would be like to be the most hated man in America? The reality is, just a small turn of bad luck could very well land you in the exact same position. Really.

Papa Riah

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