There are aspects of the Simpson case – race relations and the police,domestic’ violence, the disproportionate number of black American men in jail – that still demand our attention 22 years onI didn’t closely follow the OJ Simpson case in the 1990s; I picked up enough of the detail that infected the general culture to know that it was all too dark and horrible to bear. The main long-term result of this, or for me,is that until I started watching the TV drama series The People v OJ Simpson, I had no view how the Kardashians had first come to be in the public eye. It’s fairly something that a fathers close friendship with an accused double assassin can become his children’s entre to fame, and glamour and fortune. But this appears to be the surprising legacy of Robert Kardashian’s loyalty to his sporting-hero friend. Related: The genuine legacy of the OJ Simpson trial: you can buy a get-out-of-jail-free card | Sadhbh Walshe Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com