They dead wrong for this

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. Electric vehicles

[Irish_Dem]

2. It is a reference to a certain infamous historical event.

So the picture on the toy seems in bad taste.

[peppertree]

3. Which one?

Thanks in advance.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Famous Ford Bronco driven by AA male.

Blonde white woman murdered.

(O.J. Simpson)

[peppertree]

6. Thanks

I myself think it's a stretch - but allusions aside, the image of a white kid and a black kid sitting together must no doubt have irritated all the Chumpkins and RW church ladies who see it.

"I wanna go back to the days where you wouldn't see this kind of thing," I can hear them mutter.

[Irish_Dem]

8. I agree, but that is what the twitter comments are saying.

Seems like a stretch.

Could be racist I agree.

[peppertree]

13. It is what it is

Thanks again.

[questionseverything]

14. I hate electric vehicles for kids, they need to pedal!

[Walleye]

15. I had a pedal car when I was a little girl

[questionseverything]

16. Me too but I preferred my bike

[Walleye]

17. Me too, that car was not designed very well

[brush]

5. Hard to get from that grahic to OJ Simpson event from 25 or so years ago.

[Irish_Dem]

9. I agree, I had to read the twitter comments to figure what the issue was.

[TigressDem]

7. Simpson was alone in the Bronco, on a Freeway with cops chasing him.

This looks like (to me) that kids don't develop racist ideas until they get older.

[brush]

10. Simpson was being driven by a friend, the Bronco owner...

also a Black male. It's a long time ago, memory gets fuzzy.

OJ does not in any way come to mind when looking at that graphic of what looks like a Black woman and blonde with head and shoulders poking up thru the sun roof.

[TigressDem]

18. Guess I wasn't looking so closely at coverage of the chase.

I was working and maybe saw it on break room TV

At home, even back then, I wasn't too much for TV time. Kid had a Nintendo by then and I had stuff to do.

Read the paper for the news. WOW. I feel old.

[rsdsharp]

11. OJ was in the back seat. Al Cowlings was driving

but I take your point.

[TigressDem]

19. Thank you.

What felt insane was imagining him with her in the Bronco, after he killed her.

NO. Did not happen.


But NOW I see why people are drawing the inference.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Former teammate, Al Cowlings, was the owner and driver of the Bronco...

Simpson sat in the back.... alone

Longtime childhood friends. Teammates at Galileo High School, San Francisco City College, USC, Buffalo Bills, and SF 49ers

[TigressDem]

20. Thanks

Ironically, when he was not convicted, I thought it was a bit of payback for all those times people got jail time for simply being black in the vicinity of a crime.

I was sad for her family and would have preferred a correct verdict, but money had been gaming the system for so long by then, I wasn't surprised.