I’m not black. I’m OJ. Okay. OJ Simpson passed away from cancer. Now, I know that there’s a lot of mixed feelings about this, because some people feel like OJ Simpson actually got away with murder. Doesn’t even matter anymore. Doesn’t even matter anymore. And the reason that it doesn’t matter anymore is because you can’t hold him accountable. Only God at this point can hold him accountable. OJ Simpson had a very interesting life and a very tumultuous life.

But here’s a general summary of what OJ Simpson’s life was like and him passing away from cancer at 76. Make sure you hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the Channel and turn on your notification. Chicago does not have the best piece on earth. Messi, I’m sorry to tell you here we have just learned that OJ Simpson has died at the age of 76. His family putting out this statement just moments ago, on April 10, our father, Arenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer.

He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren during this time of transition. His family asked that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. And that was from the Simpson family. Apparently had. Was battling cancer. Sandra. And as I think you had said, that you’d seen him recently and he had looked fairly frail in the last few months. Yeah, prostate cancer that he was not able to overcome, obviously.

And I believe it was a TMZ camera that stopped him and asked if he would enter hospice care. And to which he replied, no. He’s 76 years old. He began to look very frail during his cancer battle. Clearly, everything you just described about his later part of his life overshadowed his early football success. I mean, this was OJ Simpson, Buffalo Bills, eleven seasons in the NFL. But all that professional success, obviously overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.

I mean, we all have our memories going back to those days. I know you have yours. We can picture the white Bronco and the police chase. And why was that a time? 1995? Yes, I was a waitress at the time when that jury decision came down. But also, I mean, to look back before, before all of that happened, he had a pretty incredible football career. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1968.

He was playing for the University of Southern California. He set numerous records there, as I’m sure the sports fans amongst us will be able to tell me, he was inducted in the Pro Football hall of Fame in 1985. And then you might not, I don’t know if you do, you remember he was an actor. Yeah. Yes. And he was in what was that movie? I wouldn’t be able to tell.

The one on the plate, naked gun. That’s the one I knew. I know that was part of his very complicated career before all of this happened. Someone who knows a lot about that is Jim Gray. Dana. He is joining us now. Oh, great. Jim, I know you’ve gotten the news. OJ Simpson dead at the age of 76 following his prostate cancer battle. Yeah. It’s kind of difficult to process this because such a, such an amazing football career, broadcasting career, and then overshadowed by the conviction of civil charges on the killing of Ron Brown and Nicole Brown Simpson.

I’m sorry, Ron Goldman. I knew OJ quite well. When I worked at CB’s, OJ worked at NBC. And they would send me to his games and he would end up giving me a ride home from the airport, ride to the game, spend several meals together. And I never saw a guy who enjoyed his public Persona more than OJ Simpson. He would show up at a place and everybody would light up.

Then, of course, he was acquitted on those charges, but accused of murder. And I never spoke to him again after that time. Oh, is that right? Did see him at a fight one night? Yeah, did see him at a fight one night. But our path did not cross. But a very disturbing, complicated life OJ Simpson had. Tell us about his early football talents at the University of Southern California.

Indeed, winning the Heisman, setting numerous records. He was a great football player, a great running back. He had the single season rushing record for a long, long time in the National Football League. That was broken by Eric Dickerson in 1984. Dickerson’s record still stands to this day, 2105. But OJ was the first running back in the National Football League to eclipse 2000 yards in a single season. Hasn’t happened too much in the National Football League history.

And he had that record, and he was a bigger than life figure when he came to the University of Southern California. He kind of lit up. He kind of lit up the playing field, and he kind of took Hollywood by storm. He was one of those guys that had this magnetism that attracted everybody to him. Let me show this other clip of what was going on with OJ and different perspectives.

Good morning. I am Diana Meceda. We’re coming on the air because we have breaking news. OJ Simpson has died. His family says Simpson died yesterday, saying he succumbed to his battle with cancer, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. It was revealed in February that Simpson was battling prostate cancer, but he refuted rumors at the time that he was in hospice care. ABC News audio reporter Alex Stone joins me now on the phone.

Alex, what do we know at this point? Well, Diane, his family, as you mentioned, says that he died yesterday, we believe, in Las Vegas, where he had been living. It was only a couple of weeks ago where he had refuted the claims that he was in hospice care. Right around the Super bowl. Word had come out that he may have been in hospice care, and he put out a video on X saying that he was fine looking like he was going to go golfing.

His impact on Southern California and really, the world cannot be overstated. Going back to his time in the NFL and at USC and then the NFL, then the infamous trial in the nineties for the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. He was acquitted of that. There were a number of years where he was in and out of the headlines, and then we covered for a number of months the hotel room armed robbery case in Las Vegas.

He ended up going to prison for that, got out, had been living in Las Vegas. His family now sang on X that he has died. Diane Alex, he became such a national focal point during that trial for the murders of his wife and his ex wife at the time and her friend. What legacy does OJ Simpson leave behind now so many years later? Well, I think that depending on how one looks at OJ Simpson, there is the football part of it.

The star that he was, the Hertz commercials running through the airport. He was the biggest of the big star before that trial and then the shock of the trial. There are many Americans who will always believe that he committed that double murder, others who believe that he did not. You remember the lines that came out of that. If it does not fit, you must acquit. The impact of that trial for those who were not alive during that time or not old enough to remember.

It was incredible, the whole world watching that trial during that time, the whole world watching tv and listening to the radio, waiting for that verdict to come down. And then when it came down, much of America did not agree with it. And then he was sometimes almost comically in and out of the headlines over many years. And then to get in trouble again in Las Vegas to get back his own memorabilia.

He got into the memorabilia trade and selling his items over many years and then went into retirement, always claiming he was looking for the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. There were always those who were saying he wasn’t doing enough to do that. So I remember during that time, because I was a young dude at that time. I remember during that time that he was on trial, that it was just a divisive moment between people.

It was something, again, that kept people distracted. Black people was rooting for them to get off because they had vitriol towards white people and all of the different things that they felt like white people had got away with as far as the acquittals and the police beatings and everything like that. And then white people felt like he really did it, and they felt like an innocent man got off from killing Ron Goldman and the other girl.

Right. And so it’s really interesting to see the things that we throw our support behind and the people that we see as our heroes because they wind up getting them anyway. They wind up getting them for $33 million judgment in a civil trial in which they filed against him. Because a civil trial was completely different from a criminal trial. He had to defend himself against both. That’s number one.

I remember the white Bronco going down the street, and everybody was captivated, and they had it on tv. And I also remember him coming back and getting thrown in jail as a result of trying to get his own memorabilia back. And it was like, yo, we gonna get you anyway. So it’s very interesting to see how polarizing people are. And the last memory that I actually have of OJ Simpson is seeing him on it, is what it is with Cameron and Mace.

It’s the last thing that I remember hearing and seeing of OJ Simpson. He was actually a person that was on their platform, and he would have a take, and it was pretty funny. And it’s amazing how he participated on that platform, and he would make, you know, jokes or whatever about certain things and, you know, tongue in cheek that referred back to his past and stuff like that.

So, I mean, I. Listen, we’ll never know. We’ll never know. You can always think. You can always think that, you know, whether or not he did it or not. Do I think that he did it? It doesn’t really matter what I think because I was too young for really to matter at that time. What was that, like, 9697-9697 it didn’t matter to me. I don’t think that it mattered to most people at the time of whether or not he actually did it.

The only thing that people cared about was whether or not he was going to get acquitted or whether or not he was going to be found guilty based off of color. Even back then, it was more pronounced for identity politics to take a front row seat center. And we didn’t have social media back then, so everybody was just tuned into their tv. The only thing that people. It was 94 95.

Okay, 94 95. Okay. So if it was 94 95, then I was only 1213 years old. I had just jumped off the porch. Yep. I was 1213 years old. And I just remember everybody being so concerned and a white Bronco driving down the street and everything that was going on. And when they found them not guilty, I remember everybody in my family was like, ah, you would think that the Super bowl was run by the Detroit lions.

Everybody was screaming, and they was happy, was holding each other. And I was thinking, honestly, I was thinking to myself, like, I just didn’t understand. I didn’t know why it was such a. A polarizing moment. But now that I’m older and I’m 41 years old, it’s very interesting because knowing what I know and knowing what identity politics and identity issues and the fact that people are still. Do you know that if that was 95, 94 95 and it’s 2005, right, which is 30 years later, do you know that we are having the same conversations and we align ourselves up based off of color and the same way that we did back then, the same way that we did back in 94 95, is the same way that we align ourselves based off of color today.

We have not changed. We have not made one drop of progress. We have not evolved. We still identify across, however you identify as black, white, and all of this stuff, and it’s still the same thing. We. The same way that we was back in 94 95. Crazy, crazy, bro. But he was acquitted, and he got a trial, and the jury found him not guilty. And then they tried to take away all of his money suiting, and he went quietly into the wind, and he wound up dying of prostate cancer, basically old age at 76 years old.

I guess the other thing that I’m wondering is, what constitutes a long life? A full life? What constitutes a full life? Like, how do we say that a person lived a full life? What age? Because I seen somebody in the chat earlier, and they said, man, if you could live to be 76, 77, 78, or whatever, so on and so forth, you know, as a black man and you’ve.

You’ve really made it, man. I felt like I made it just to make it past 18 and 21 years old, coming from Detroit, Michigan, in the eighties and the nineties, being able to graduate from high school in the year 2000, and, you know, everybody was rooting for you. And it’s so funny because when you root, when you. When you graduated back then to go to college, a lot of us at that time was the first 1st people to go to college.

We didn’t know that we was gonna be signing up for student loans. A lot of us, the first time, the first time, a lot of us was the first of our family to go to college. And they were so happy for you to go to college. You just signed at the dotted line and you didn’t even think about the possibility of what student loans was gonna be doing to you.

You just signed up, you was just happy to be going. We remember the freak, Nick, and we was on campus and we was gonna make it happen. Mmm hmm. Mmm, mmm, mmm mmm. Freedom. Ho. Yes. And everybody went and they signed up for they african american studies and all of that stuff. And, yeah, it was an interesting time back then. Interesting, interesting time. So again, OJ Simpson passed and at 76 years old, from prostate cancer.

Guys, go to the doctor, get checked out. Go to the doctor, get checked out. Okay? I go to the doctor every single year. I get checked out. I go to the dentist twice a year. If y’all got benefits on your job, if you have benefits on your job, use them. Go to the dentist, go to the doctor, get checked out. A lot of the stuff that we wind up getting into is preventable.

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