CNN’s Ashley Allison Said OJ Simpson Represented Something [Video]

Former Biden staffer and current Harvard fellow Ashley Allison found herself in a bit of controversy after recently discussing the impact of the 1995 OJ Simpson trial on CNN. The broadcaster’s political commentator didn’t mince words when she discussed the feelings Simpson’s death brought back up for Black Americans.

Simpson died on April 10 from prostate cancer. In 1994, he was charged in the double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. Ultimately, his acquittal showed a pertinent divide between Black and white America though Simpson was found civilly liable for their deaths.

“[Simpson’s case] was so racially charged because of what had happened just before with Rodney King, but also just how Black Americans feel about policing,” Allison explained when asked about how the trial divided the country in racial ways.

She continued:

“[Simpson] …