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May 10, 2007

O.J. victim of racism?

When a restaurateur kicked O.J. out of his steakhouse,was the businessman being racist or was he just being a jerk?

Yale Galanter, Simpson's lawyer claims Jeff Ruby was being racist when he asked Simpson and his party to leave his restaurant the night before the Kentucky Derby. A lawsuit will undoubtedly follow. Frankly, I think Ruby was being a bigger ass than O.J.

Still, it should come as no surprise to O.J. that he is hated in some circles--not because he is black, but because he is a black man who was acquitted of brutally butchering his white wife. But this is still America. You can't deny public accommodations to someone just because you hate them.