Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, is accused of double murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman in the death of OJ Simpson. He said the acquittal was a “necessary” result.
Simpson, 76, died Thursday at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, after a battle with prostate cancer.
The former Buffalo Bills running back is best known for being acquitted in the aforementioned murder case. But Hill had some interesting views after his death.
“OJ Simpson was a violent liar who abandoned his community long before he murdered two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the right and necessary result of a racist criminal justice system,” he wrote in X.
“But he is still a monster, not a martyr.”
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Marc Lamont Hill argues that OJ Simpson’s acquittal was right because he was black.
Marc Lamont Hill, a former CNN and Fox News contributor, was called in to take on the OJ Simpson case.
It’s hard not to draw a conclusion about these remarks. OJ wasn’t actually black, but because he was black, he deserved to get away with murder.
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But Hill denied that was his opinion, despite clearly stating that Simpson’s case was a “proper and necessary result of a racist criminal justice system.”
He responded to the critic: “I never said that.” “The witness was caught lying. This raises legal doubts. Therefore, the ruling was justified. “The system must be fair, regardless of race.”
But that wasn’t what he said at first.
Detective Mark Fuhrman was arrested for making racial slurs while lying on the witness stand. He also invoked the Fifth Amendment whenever the defense asked about planting evidence.
But many speculate that the jury acquitted Simpson because of his race in response to the police beating of Rodney King several years earlier.
Nonetheless, as Hill acknowledged, there was ample actual evidence pointing to Simpson’s guilt in this case.
“He killed two people in cold blood.”
And indeed, in a civil trial that followed in 1997, Simpson was found liable for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown and Goldman. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims’ families.
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Fired from CNN
Marc Lamont Hill was in the news earlier this year when he called for Harvard’s president to be selected based solely on race and gender.
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He was responding to news that former Harvard president Claudine Gay was resigning. Gay’s fate follows controversy over allegations of plagiarism and accusations that he promotes anti-Semitism on campus.
CNN famously fired Hill Hill in 2018 after she called for the destruction of Israel and incited violence against Jews before a United Nations panel.
And here’s Marc Lamont Hill calling for a “free Palestine from river to sea.” @bennyavni) pic.twitter.com/E7ugrByKyf
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) November 28, 2018
Hill defended the Palestinian resistance’s use of terrorism and violence in 2018.
“We must recognize the right of the occupied people to defend themselves,” he said.
“We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it,” he added, concluding that “justice requires freedom for Palestine from river to sea.”
The expression ‘from the river to the sea’ has been used by the terrorist organization Hamas. This is widely known as a mantra calling for the destruction of Israel.
