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Flashed over the Wire, 10/3/95, 10:08 a.m. PDT, from the City of London to Wall Street: What did O.J. say to Johnnie Cochran immediately after the verdict was read? “Can I have my gloves back now?”

Seen around Town: Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., coming to court in the homestretch of the O. J. Simpson trial accompanied by Nation of Islam bodyguards, then giving a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, greeted by standing ovations. Now, thirty-odd years ago, if a lawyer for the Birmingham church bombers had rolled into court with bodyguards in white hoods, then addressed a Goldwater for President rally, wouldn’t there have been—comments? It’s not just that much of the black leadership is behaving like a separate nation, it’s that it is behaving like a banana republic: anything goes, and nobody else cares.

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Flashed over the Wire, 10/3/95, 10:08 a.m. PDT, from the City of London to Wall Street: What did O.J. say to Johnnie Cochran immediately after the verdict was read? “Can I have my gloves back now?”

Seen around Town: Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., coming to court in the homestretch of the O. J. Simpson trial accompanied by Nation of Islam bodyguards, then giving a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, greeted by standing ovations. Now, thirty-odd years ago, if a lawyer for the Birmingham church bombers had rolled into court with bodyguards in white hoods, then addressed a Goldwater for President rally, wouldn’t there have been—comments? It’s not just that much of the black leadership is behaving like a separate nation, it’s that it is behaving like a banana republic: anything goes, and nobody else cares.