CNN contributor Ashley Allison was criticized for saying OJ Simpson ‘meant something’ to the black community because ‘two white people were killed’

A CNN contributor sparked outrage Thursday by claiming that OJ Simpson “meant something to the black community…especially because two white people were killed.”

Ashley Allison made the comment during the network’s coverage of the death of Simpson, 76, a disgraced NFL legend who was acquitted in 1995 of his ex-wife’s murders. Nicole Brown Simpsonand her friend Ron Goldman.

Allison — a former Obama administration official who also worked on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign as well as his transition team — was weighing in on the racial tensions that gripped the country during the Simpson trial and its aftermath.

She said the Simpson case highlighted “how black Americans feel about policing.”

“He was not a social justice leader, but he meant something to the black community at that time, during that trial, especially because two white people had been killed,” Allison said.

“And the history of how black people were persecuted during slavery.”

Allison’s comment sparked a backlash, with one X user remarking: “Absolutely unhinged racism.” »

“They keep saying the silent part out loud,” another X commenter wrote.

One X user wrote that if he said the same thing about white people on Fox News, “I would be canceled so quickly.”

The Post has reached out to CNN and Allison for comment.

Marc Lamont Hill, a prominent media personality and CUNY professor, also made waves when he wrote on his X account that Simpson was “an abusive liar” and a “monster” who “killed two people with blood -cold,” his acquittal “was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.

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Hill defended his assertion that the acquittal was fair, noting that Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective who worked on the case, “was caught lying” about referring to black people with racist epithets.

Hill also said Fuhrman pleaded the Fifth when asked if he had planted evidence in the Simpson case.

“This raises a legal doubt,” according to Hill. “That’s why the verdict was correct.”

“Regardless of race, the system must be fair. »

Hill wrote that Los Angeles prosecutors “failed to meet (their) burden” and that “a racist police officer created reasonable doubt because of his lies and documented racism.”

“This is how the system is supposed to work,” Hill wrote. “There are no exceptions for people you don’t like.”

During the Simpson trial, Fuhrman testified under oath that he never referred to black people with the N-word.

But Simpson’s lawyers later presented as evidence recordings in which Fuhrman is heard using the epithet.