They FINALLY Got Him

Dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell...Respect... ...VOTE...Fight, Fight the Power, You've GOTTA Fight the Powers That Be! (Thanks, Isley Brothers and Public Enemy)

It was fourteen years in the making, and the decision was handed down on the exact anniversary. OJ is going to jail for perhaps the rest of his life. Did he get away with murder or was he the potential victim of a frame-up and his money bought him the finest lawyers in the land to prove his innocence? Most likely, we will never know. I don't think OJ's finest hours will ever be the topic of conversation again. He ruined any chance of that when he wrote his account of the murders in, "If I Did It." Real jackass move, if you ask me. He will forever be spoken about in less than flattering, agitated tones. How could a so-called All-American, Apple Pie eating, Airport Running, Hertz Driving, Acceptable Negro, like OJ, wind up being the most hated man in America? I think he bought his own hype and forgot who he really was. When you allow someone else to define you, you are who you are only until they decide you are no longer needed, and then you are a nobody. Define self for self. I LOVE Imhotep Gary Byrd's opening that features Sweet Honey in the Rock singing the Kwanzaa song. If nothing else, it reminds me of just how magnificent I am in my own right. Not anymore than the next person, but wholeness in myself all by myself. It should be a required teaching of all parents to their children, practiced at all times in their homes, regardless of race, creed, color, ethnicity, or religious affiliation, that we empower our children with the knowledge that they do not have to look outside of themselves to be validated. We MUST teach all children to name self for self. If not, OJ will not be the last brother to go down because he bought the hype. C'mon P.E., let's go: "Don't, Don't, Don't Believe the HYYYYPPEE!!!!!......." YOU are WHO YOU say YOU are! Ya best ta believe it, man!