>And while a few kooks might claim that O.J.'s
>acquittal was an anti-racist victory, nobody takes them seriously.
O.J.'s acquittal wasn't all about O.J. As Al Sharpton said at Johnnie Cochran's funeral, the cheering wasn't for O.J:
>"With all due respect to you brother Simpson, we
>didn't clap when the acquittal of Simpson came
>for O.J., we were clapping for Johnnie," the
>Rev. Al Sharpton said in his eulogy. "We were
>clapping because for decades our brothers, our
>cousins, our uncles had to stand in the well
>with no one to stand up for them. And finally a
>black man came and said, if it don't fit – you must acquit.