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Upper eastside. again, i'm this 23-year-old, 24-year-old young woman. >> wow. >> it was not lost on me in that moment. i was having a very visceral reaction not unlike many african-americans at the time but there were no african-americans aroundmy. that was not lost on me. i remember i needed to clip my sentiment and my feelings at the time. >> mark? >> i was a senior in high school and they allowed -- >> oh, boy. >> don't hate, don. >> obviously the baby of the group, don. >> exactly. don't be mad. i was a senior in high school. everybody in the high school stopped to watch the verdict. that'...

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Prosecuting o.j. didn't understand these racial dynamics when they waded into the case and they were waylaid by it, laid flat by it because they weren't aware of what they were stepping into and they didn't understand the history of black folks' friction with the lapd and -- >> and mark -- i'm sorry, we lost eric. mark, we're still seeing that play out today especially stories that concern race in this country and policing. >> oh, absolutely. that's why i would say it's not so much the o.j. simpson trial shaped perception, they reflected the perceptions. a long history of our relationships to ...

Believe he got away with murder. they looked stunned. we looked happy. it reflects the divide. >> eric? >> thanks for making me feel so old, mark. basically, i was music critic for the asbury park press in new jersey so i was in a newsroom when it happened and i remember the tension, white people didn't know what to say to me. when it happened. i remember being a little insulted that people assumed that i was glad that he had been acquitted. when i thought he was guilty. and was disappointed that he'd been acquitted. >> i got to -- >> and the assumptions that people were making about how peopl...