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In a viral TikTok video, user @xiandivyne admitted that he only says O.J. Simpson was guilty of the double murder that made him go from famous to infamous around other Black people.

“He’s the only Black man that the justice system has ever let slip through like that,” he said.

But around white people, he doesn’t defend Simpson. Instead, he listens to their views. It’s a “racism litmus test” to find out who among them is not to be trusted.

 

A woman admitted she vigorously argues to non-Black people that Simpson is innocent. But among her Black friends, she has a different view: “O.J. deff did that shit.”

 

Others on social media are surprised and confused that white folk believed that Black people thought Simpson was innocent. “…It’s a running joke just how guilty O.J. was,” a social media user posted to X (formerly Twitter).

Indeed, Black people often admit – among each other – that Simpson was guilty as hell — but we would never confess that to white people.

Comedian Felonious Munk wrote, “To this day some of them sincerely believe that Black people thought O.J. was innocent.”

 

 

Simpson’s white ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered at Nicole’s Los Angeles home on June 12, 1994. Prosecutors argued that the evidence pointed to the former NFL hero’s guilt – evidence that included DNA on what prosecutors argued was Simpson’s bloody glove, size 12 Bruno Magli shoe prints and socks found in his bedroom.

But that evidence wasn’t ironclad… a majority-Black jury saw things differently. They, along with about 71 percent of Black folks, said the fallen NFL star was not guilty of double murder – exposing a glaring racial divide. Why would so many Black people say that Simpson didn’t do it? There are lots of theories still floating around nearly 30 years later.

Well, let’s start with the racist cop. At the trial, former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who allegedly found the bloody glove, denied ever using the N-word, but the defense presented audio evidence of him spewing the slur. He then invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination when asked if he ever planted evidence.

There’s also the timing of the “Trial of the Century:” It unfolded a few years after the 1992 L.A. riots. Black voices cried out for justice after a video emerged of LAPD officers brutally beating Black motorist Rodney King. But the justice system, once again, failed the Black community: A white jury acquitted the four officers, igniting the riot.

Our excitement at Simpson’s acquittal wasn’t about the man’s innocence or guilt – it was all about generations of injustice and white people killing Blacks with impunity. Nearly 30 years later, that’s much easier for Black people to admit – to each other.