Encore: “I’m Not Black I’m O.J.”

Encore: “I’m Not Black I’m O.J.”

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From the Code Switch archives: Gene talks with Ezra Edelman, director of the ESPN documentary “OJ: Made in America.” For a long time, O.J. Simpson seemed to be running away from his race. “I’m not black, I’m O.J.!” he’d tell his friends. Gene and Ezra consider O.J.’s identity beyond the frame of the so-called “Trial of the Century.” (A warning, this episode has some racially charged language.)