I have a lot of feelings about society's reaction to this case. I am angered, ashamed, confused, and most of all disappointed.

This stupid case should have been news for a week and then we should have moved on. But it follows the truth that any crime committed black males are in the news twice a long as crime by white men.

A prime example was the Robert Blake case. Both hr and OJ are has-been celebrities who were both found guilty by public opinion. Where is Robert Blake now ... acquitted. Where is his article? Where is his outrage? When you google Robert Blake you received 729,000 hits for "robert blake" and OJ received 2,130,000 for "oj simpson". There is 3 times as many websites focused on OJ. Why? Why can't we let this go? If society did not make this the biggest news since sliced bread then OJ would not have had the idea of writing a book to sell.

If a white person kills it is called post-traumatic stress syndrome. (A syndrome that Mary Winkler acquired when she was 13 due to her sister dying of a heart attack. Heck, Mary was not even home when this happened.) If you believe this post-traumatic alibi then I have some magic beans for you. She spent 67 DAYS in a psychiatric facility and now she is a free member of society.

I ask the following questions to the author of this article: Where are the people affected by Katrina sleeping tonight? Or are you concerned about talking about people who you can actually help? They ARE still alive.

In a society where Paris Hilton can spend 23 DAYS in jail and Nicole Ritchie a mere 82 MINUTES for repeat offenses and claim that justice was served. In a society that can allow Jena 6 to occur in 2007 and look me in the face to say "Why are people so upset?" In days when white girls get less prison time then it takes for me to have a complete cycle for drunk driving and a young black high school student gets 22 years for fighting in a school yard something is tragically wrong

Leave the man alone, don’t buy the book if you don’t want to, and send money to help those poor boys in Louisiana. Maybe OJ had posttraumatic stress too.

I probably don't have my facts straight here & I wish I could remember more about the article I read a month ago or so...

What about that poor kid down south (Georgia??)? Highschool football player that had consensual sex with a minor (while he was a minor too?). She was white and he was black. They video taped it. You know the kid that could've went on to bigger & better things playing college ball? He was the prom king. Poor guy. I'm convinced he's sitting for no other reason than the color of his skin- & the color of her's too. Labled as a sexual offender too? HARSH!

two kids having consensual sex. the saddest part is that even the prosecutor's office wanted to let the kid go eventually and the courts prevented it. and while there have been news pieces done here and there on the case, there hasnt been nearly enough public outrage and speaking about this. why has there been no call by the people for the govt (at state or federal levels, whichever is appropriate) to pardon this poor kid??!?!?!?!?

I've heard a lot of people out there—DJs to coworkers—emphatically say they will not buy this book and implore whoever ever is listening to boycott it as well. I say BUY IT and THEN DESTROY IT! Don’t read it, for heaven’s sake! In so doing, we'll all contribute the Ron Goldman foundation AND deny OJ his pathological thrill. Besides the fact that it can be no less that absolute garbage from a literary perspective, it is without question revictimization. Think about it people...

The Genarlow Wilson case has been a huge miscarriage of justice, however the woman/girl he had sex with was also African American. A white judge authorized his release several months ago and the Georgia Attorney General who blocked his release. Thurbert Baker (the attorney general who blocked the release) is also African American.

This case was a damned if you damned if you don't. Had the DA not prosecuted, people would have said "if it had been a white girl he would have been prosecuted." So now that Mr. Wilson was prosecuted, it is only because he was black.

There has been supreme public outcry in the state of GA over this debacle, but please do not make all GA residents out to be racists since you do not know the facts.

One major problem with jasknigt's version of reality is that OJ Simpson was a much more beloved celebrity than Robert Blake ever hoped to be. To consider the two as equals in popularity, and thus blaming race as the sole difference driving interest in the respective cases, is ridiculous.

Two, there was a lot less evidence connecting Blake to his murder compared to OJ's case. And let's not forget OJ's very public, yet listlessly slow, chase in the Bronco. There was a lot more to the case to rivet the audience's attention.

The notion that white people blame "post-traumatic stress" while black people get nailed is ridiculous. Thousands of people of all races get thrown in jail for killing people and yet you cherry-pick one woman's odd result as proof of systematic racism? Please. As for Paris and Nikki, celebrities of all stripes get preferential treatment all the time. In fact, that was a big cause for why OJ escaped a guilty verdict! It's an open secret that Los Angeles cops treat celebrities differently than regular folk. And that indeed sucks, but it's not a racial issue.

Leave OJ alone? Fact is, we are leaving him alone. He wrote the book, not us. He's out, free as a bird, without any care about being accused of the same crime again. In fact, he can come right out and admit to having done it and it doesn't matter! Before our double jeopardy rule, OJ would have been back in the clink for another trial within minutes of the not-guilty verdict. Oh no, we've been leaving him alone, all right. Yet now he's practically bragging about how that bitch wife of his got what she deserved. Frankly, I wish he'd leave us alone.

The Jenna 6. Six young men ganged up on one young man and nearly beat him to death and we are to feel sorry for the persons who committed the crime. While I don't think teenagers should be tried as adults, I am still appalled at how some people are trying to trivialize a serious act of violence. What about the young man who was hurt? Perhaps we should send money to his family to cover doctor and hospital bills. No act of violence should be condoned. A powerfully tragic positive message is being sent to all young people who are prone to violence.

Nearly beat him to death? If the TV news reports are correct, he was physically well enough to attend a school function later the evening of the beating, so it doesn't quite sound like he was near death.

And I thought that orginally the officials were looking at two white people, THEN switched focus, for no logical, public reason, to these six boys.