Archive Entry #26: October 7, 1995
In recent months the racial divide in our nation has spilled onto our streets and sidewalks and gas stations as videotaped encounters between police and African Americans have prompted vigorous protests and national debates.
I have written a column about the lessons of Ferguson, Missouri, that is available on this website. As we reach the one quarter mark in this collection of past newsletter columns, rather than revisiting recent history I allow this entry to take us back nineteen years ago today (as of the date of this entry’s arrival in the archive), to the acquittal of O.J. Simpson on murder charges. This column, published four days after the verdict, testifies to my long-standing passions about racism, as well as what was then my confusion and ambivalence about that acquital.
