Based on the Percentage of Melanocytes...


 


I may regret this but I don't understand. I just watched the Frontline episode on The O.J. Verdict. Based on the show, the whole trial was about race. Can that be true?

Full disclosure, I have a smaller percentage of melanocytes in my skin than those whose ancestors came from the continent of Africa or any other equatorial areas of the Earth. My ancestors came from England. I am British American. Well, American. Or is it native American? Anyway, my ancestors have been here since the early 1700s.

That being said, all people with fewer melanocytes in their skin than O.J. "only viewed the case from a racist perspective" according to the second half of the 'documentary.' Because O.J. was accused of killing white people, and I am white, I thought him guilty?!?

It has been 10 years, but I do remember that I thought he was guilty because I watched hours of the trial and I thought he was guilty. No more, no less. The "CSI" (how the world has changed) evidence convinced me. I can't recall ever thinking, "that black man must be guilty because he killed white people." I really can't. Are there people that think that way? Absolutely. But not me, so stop lumping me in with people that think that way. Stop with the generallizations. I don't do it and you shouldn't either. Also, I now remember why I don't watch PBS. I tuned in to see what I had forgotten about that trial and I, because of pigment, or lack thereof, was attacked.

I, to used a word the liberals love to use, am offended.

Also, at the end of the hour they talked to many of the people claiming the whole thing was about race and they said they also thought he was guilty, but were glad he was acquitted, because of the color of his skin. Is that not racist?

I am just asking because I still don't understand. If I am not supposed to judge based on the percentage of melanocytes in someone's skin, shouldn't everybody do that? Or is there a double standard here, based on the percentage of melanocytes in someone's skin?

Note: I used the "percentage of melanocytes" phrasing because anatomically that is the only difference between black and white people. It makes me sick that a biological adaptation to sun exposure is used to justify or not justify, any action against another human being. One more thing. I understand that in the past and still today, many horrible things have been, are being done, based on the color of skin, but I have never done those things and never would. I don't appreciate being stereotyped based on my percentage of melanocytes.

Posted: Wednesday - October 05, 2005 at 00:10          

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