As a 70 year old White man who saw the whole thing unfold along with the rest of the nation, I must say the White people I knew felt very, very sad to believe O.J. was almost certainly guilty. We didn’t give a damn what color his wife was. We mourned the loss of both O.J. and his wife. And Ronald Goldman. And we felt so very bad for the children.

After JFK and MLK we believed this nation was healing at long last. We were glad to have lived to see this healing. We were glad to be alive in this time of growing realization and hope. But after OJ we seemed to slowly fall back into the Nightmare, the long erosion of hope.

And then there was the failed promise of Barack Obama and the new radical Democrats, who forsook the working people, Black, Red, Brown and White, taking to their own gilded communities, until the rest of us fell into our present profound national bewilderment and depression. It’s all so very sad.