OJ was an amazing football player back in his years. He was the best at talking the football and running home. he was unstoppable. OJ was one of the most hardworking people out in LA. He had a dream to be the best and play the best.OJ was so popular, he was the first black person to be in commercials that black and white people enjoyed. White people saw him as OJ and not some black guy. OJ became so fixed about being someone who was not considerate a scary black person in the eyes of white people.
OJ was so much power and fame it was getting to his head. OJ would get a lot of women, OJ could get into places for free. OJ was enabled so much in his life, he started to use people for his own gene. had a wife but never really was their for her. and one day his baby died from drowning in a pool. That set him off. he got a divorce and met an 18 year old girl who he liked a lot. they started dating for a while and people saw it as a good relation ship. But OJ would constantly have affairs with other woman. He was not a good role model for other people at all. OJ would lie about a lot of stuff as well, he would cheat on people, he would cheat at golf, and when he got angry he would physically hurt the ones he loved.
Over time his life was once a high, know it is a low. fame and power really changed OJ and his view on life.
Its so sad how the fame can destroy you.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and Damaris, fame completely got to OJ's head. Because he was the first African American to get all of these amazing opportunities, he became entitled. He knew that the white society he was apart of, was stunned about his football and track and field career. He took advantage of that. In the beginning of his career, we can see that he's selfish because he believes it's more important to focus on his sports than to participate in the black rights movement. Not only did society think he was white, he did too. As he started getting more and more opportunities, he began to think he could do anything. Being black didn't seem to matter to him. In the end, his actions bit him in the butt. He deserved it.
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree that fame got to him and completely changed him. He was trying to be someone who he wasn't. In front of White Americans, he liked to portray himself as a friendly, generous likable guy. However, behind closed doors, his real personality showed. I believe that it was partly because of his ego. He would refuse to even lose a golf game, and he would rather cheat so others could think that he's good at golf when he knows that he's not. His whole life, he was acting in front of others, then we was himself when he wasn't around the press, and when he wasn't in public. His real self was exposed when he beat his wife, was cheating in golf, was cheating on his wife, etc. If you're living your whole life acting and being someone who you aren't, your real self will at some time be exposed, especially when you're someone as famous as OJ was. He clearly had special talents that the world hadn't seen before, which is why he acquired all this fame, but he wasn't smart at all with handling the fame, and staying modest. One thing that really made me think of him differently was how he hardly gave attention to his kids and wife. When his kid drowned, he just moved on to a new wife and forgot about everything that had just happened. This shows how he did not care about his wife at all. From what I've seen, his priorities were his fame and his image over his family, kids, etc. He was extremely selfish and self-conscious in my mind. In the end, his true self that he was hiding for so long was finally exposed to the world.
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https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/us/o-j-simpson-how-we-got-here/index.html
It makes you wonder if that level of fame would get into anybody's head, or if OJ was in a way predisposed to act in the ways that he did following his fame. Since OJ got this level of fame there had been many other people who have been able to achieve the same or close to the same level of fame that OJ reached. I appears that OJ was a victim of his own fame and was never able to cool his jets and slow down and live his life like any other regular average person in the USA. Another question to ask if he still would have been an abuser without the fame that he did have, or if it truly was a result of his fame that he became an abuser.
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