Squeezing the Juice

On December 5, OJ Simpson got sentenced to at least nine years in prison. What the hell is up with that?! What is this country coming to when a guy is prejudged and mistreated just because he brutally murdered two people in the early 90s? What happened to letting our movie stars and sports heroes skate through life without really having to follow the rules and laws that the rest of society has to? That's why we have celebrities right? We envy and covet their lives and curse them for the supposed "double standard" us commoners have to live by, all the while continuing to spend money on and follow any tabloid or movie that has to do with them.

I am in jail right now, but I only have semi-celebrity status and only in select places, so it's understandable. This is OJ Simpson we're talking about here! The Juice! The guy is old and poor now. Let him hangout and do whatever he wants will you? So he made some mistakes. Who hasn't? If a different former running back who has reached an elderly age got caught up for the same thing in the state of Nevada he wouldn't be getting the same sentence. I think that just because he's black, and yeah, maybe the fact that he hacked up his ex-wife and her friend with a knife, he is being unfairly judged.

Show some mercy on the guy. It's so easy for people to judge people when they have never been in that situation before. I know what it's like to be judged and pray that people show mercy for the things I have done. So I am sympathetic to what OJ has to go through. Of course my ordeal wasn't televised and my sentence is not nearly as life changing, but I can relate. Sort of.

Well come to think of it, I actually never murdered anyone in Brentwood myself, and I am not an old black guy who used to play in the NFL either. I better stop before I forget why it is I relate to him.

Bye y'all.