Some months before her death, in a moment of almost prophetic clarity, Nicole Brown Simpson told her sister: "O.J. is going to kill me, and he will get away with it."  She was right.  He killed her, and he got away with it.  He got away with it because the black community is in profound denial about itself and its moral failings.  Almost 90 percent of African-Americans simply could not see how very powerful the case against O.J. was.  Or, what is even more frightening, they saw it and didn't care.

I wanted very much for O.J. to be innocent. So did most white people. Very many white Americans are happy when a black person succeeds and becomes a positive role model.   But as the evidence mounted, I became certain that he alone could have murdered Nicole and Ron Goldman.  Like me, I'm sure nearly all blacks wanted him to be innocent, hoped and prayed that he was innocent. But unlike me and most white people, who came reluctantly to believe in his guilt, the black community refused to look at the evidence and almost uniformly pronounced O.J. innocent.

This is because very many blacks are racists themselves. They see white guilt, white conspiracy, and persecution everywhere they look. They look at a mountain of incriminating evidence,  and they see police conspiracy. They look at the sleazy chicanery of Johnny Cochran, and they make him a hero. They look at epidemic crime among young black males and call the system racist for putting them in jail.  Racial resentment has clouded their minds.

Many whites of good will, who are not racist and who applaud every positive achievement  black  people  make, have begun to view with alarm the irrationality so many blacks display in all matters of race.  Johnny Cochran told the jury to send a message. The message some of us received is that it is okay to kill white people, that it is "payback time."  True, most blacks are not violent, would not commit murder themselves. But they are very  forgiving of those who do. The stunning solidarity of the  black community in this case is a scary omen. It seems to indicate that blacks are not content with justice, or even with equality; they want revenge!