[BobboFitos]

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Is the black community (if such a thing exists) capable of actually NOT supporting a high profile black individual?

I'd bet Mike Tyson still has a significantly higher favorability rating among blacks than whites.

I think it's sort of a "gotta stick together" mentality.

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black people in general like OJ simpson more then white people, and the dude is a murderer.

it's OBVIOUSLY a stick together mentality, but... you cant really blame that!!! i would too. (meaning, be more apt to support tyson/oj/etc.) but ppl like oj / bonds / tyson are bad people and shouldnt really be thought of "black" first, they should just be thought of bad humans. race should truly have nothing to do with that. (and no, bonds is nowhere near OJ in the scale of "goodness" or "badness," so i'm not really interested in the semantics of that statement)