BLACK IDENTITY - THE SIMPSON,O.J. CASE

The purpose of this paper is to review the White and Black perspective s regarding the O. J. Simpson trial. The hermeneutic-dialectic (HD) me thod of inquiry will be utilized in order to comprehend how Whites and Black reached their respective conclusions concerning O. J. Simpson's guilt or innocence. This method of inquiry employs discourses, separa tely by Blacks and Whites, the interchange of the recorded discourses, and last, the coming together of both groups of participants for furt her discourse. Blacks, in contrast to Whites, experienced justice thro ugh a common sense of identity forged historically by a minority peopl e rather than by the immediate circumstantial evidence gathered at the time of the trial.