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Former Biden staffer and current Harvard fellow Ashley Allison found herself in a bit of controversy after recently discussing the impact of the 1995 OJ Simpson trial on CNN. The broadcaster’s political commentator didn’t mince words when she discussed the feelings Simpson’s death brought back up for Black Americans.

Simpson died on April 10 from prostate cancer. In 1994, he was charged in the double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. Ultimately, his acquittal showed a pertinent divide between Black and white America though Simpson was found civilly liable for their deaths.

“[Simpson’s case] was so racially charged because of what had happened just before with Rodney King, but also just how Black Americans feel about policing,” Allison explained when asked about how the trial divided the country in racial ways.

She continued:

“[Simpson] wasn’t a social justice leader, but he represented something for the Black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who had been killed. And the history around how Black people have been persecuted during slavery. Until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial dynamics from our origin story until today, we will always have moments like O.J. Simpson that manifests and our country will always be divided if we don’t actually deal with the issue of race.”

Of course, conservatives like Charlie Kirk shared Allison’s commentary on X to draw ire from his fans. Some of his followers responded to the clip with remarks that the media is vehemently anti-white and labeled Allison as a “Black racist.” The truth of the matter is, Simpson was found not guilty because LAPD let their racism and corruption botch their entire investigation.

After Detective Mark Fuhrman got caught using the N-word when he denied doing so under oath and pleaded the fifth when asked if he planted evidence in the Simpson case, the suspect’s defense team got all the reasonable doubt they needed for an acquittal.

Simpson’s legacy isn’t just about how a Black man allegedly got away with killing two white people, but how our criminal justice system inherently upholds white supremacy regardless of the cost.