They were discussing the impact of the trial on their family, and on Marguerite, in particular. The sister began to cry as she recounted how Orenthal James spoke to Marguerite and apologized to her for all the pain he had caused her. The camera maintained its focus on the face of Marguerite's sister as she told the story of how Marguerite encouraged Orenthal to continue to read the Bible and to maintain faith. It seems to me now that this was the same message she tried to instill into Orenthal back when they were man and wife, before the money and the fame, before the ultimate tragedy that is now Orenthal's life - charged with murdering a white female and a white male. One barrier to an effective coalition between Black women and white women is their competition for Black men . .
Black men see white women as symbols of the white man's privileges.
Black women tend to see them as symbols of the Black male's oppression and subjugation. In 1976, the third child of Orenthal and Marguerite died in an accidental drowning in the swimming pool of their home. Aaren Simpson was only 23 months old. According to accounts I've read, at the hospital, O.J. ran down the hall towards Marguerite screaming and accusing her of drowning their child. In his own grief as a father, he probably did not see the far greater pain of the loss of a child for a Black mother, particularly a spiritually-based one as Marguerite Whitley Simpson.