how the poor neighborhood that oj forgot turned rich and forgot him back /

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OJ Simpson never looked back at the Potrero Hill neighborhood where he grew up,now a fast-gentrifying area not particularly keen on remembering himBefore there was a Bronco on the freeway, or a glove in the courtroom or the trial of a lifetime, and OJ Simpson became a puzzle piece on Nicole Emanuel’s wall.
This was in 1987 when then
the name ‘OJ’ meant the final in achievement for any African-American child growing up on the incorrect side of a hill. And to Emanuel,a muralist celebrating her Potrero Hill neighborhood at the 17th and Connecticut bus stop, Simpson was the one she needed to paint in the murals middle – a man who rose from nothing in a community San Francisco largely forgot.
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Source: theguardian.com

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