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‘I’m not black, I’m O.J.’: What O.J. Simpson’s life showed about transcending race and being trapped by it

  • Written by Rodney Coates, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
imageO.J. Simpson listens to testimony during his 1995 trial, in which he was acquitted of murder charges. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images

It’s still unclear when – or if – O.J. Simpson actually said the words that rapper Jay-Z attributed to him in his 2017 Grammy-nominated song “The Story of O.J.”

But the words stuck and...

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