Marc Lamont Hill, professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center, reacts to the death of O.J. Simpson, saying he was in love with his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson Simpson and Ron Goldman were acquitted in the double murder case.
Simpson, 76, died Thursday of prostate cancer at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The former Buffalo Bills running back is best known for his acquittal in the aforementioned murder case. However, Hill had an interesting perspective after his death.
“OJ Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community before murdering two people in cold blood. His acquittal of murder is the correct and inevitable outcome of a racist criminal legal system,” he said in X reads.
“But he remains a monster, not a martyr.”
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Marc Lamont Hill says OJ Simpson’s acquittal was right because he’s black
Former CNN and Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill has been criticized for his views on the O.J. Simpson case.
With these comments, it’s hard not to conclude that OJ isn’t really black, but he should get away with murder just because he is.
“To say he left the black community and admitted to being a murderer but to think he still deserves black criminal immunity is crazy,” one fan on X responded.
However, Hill denied that this was his view, although he made it clear that the Simpson case was “the correct and necessary outcome of a racist criminal legal system.”
“I never said that,” he responded to his critics. “The witness was found to have lied. This raises legal questions. So the verdict is correct. The system must be fair regardless of race.
But that’s not what he originally said.
Detective Mark Foreman was found lying on the witness stand for using a racial slur. Additionally, he invoked the Fifth Amendment every time the defense asked him about planting evidence.
But many speculate that the jury’s acquittal of Simpson because of his race was a response to the police beating of Rodney King years earlier.
Still, as Hill acknowledged, there was enough actual evidence to convict Simpson in the case.
“He killed two people in cold blood.”
In fact, in a subsequent civil trial in 1997, Simpson was found responsible for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown and Goldman. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in restitution to the victims’ families.
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Fired from CNN
Marc Lamont Hill made news earlier this year when he called for Harvard University’s president to be chosen based solely on race and gender.
“The next president of Harvard University must be a black woman,” Hill insisted in a post on X.
He was responding to the news that former Harvard University president Claudine Gay was forced to resign. Gay’s fate follows controversy over allegations of plagiarism and promoting anti-Semitism on campus.
CNN fired Hill in 2018 after he called for the destruction of Israel and incited violence against Jews before a United Nations panel.
Marc Lamont Hill calls for a ‘free Palestine from river to sea’ (video via @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 occupied peoples to defend themselves,” he said.
“We must prioritize peace, but we cannot romanticize or fetishize it,” he added, concluding, “Justice requires… a free Palestine from river to sea.”
The phrase “from river to sea” has been used by the terrorist organization Hamas. It is widely regarded as a mantra calling for the destruction of Israel.
