On Thursday, news of O.J. Simpson's death crossed the wire. The passing of the accused (but acquitted) murderer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman quickly captured the nation's attention, with different responses materializing.

For most, it was not a day of mourning, but of noting that someone who almost certainly butchered two people in cold blood had finally met his end. Still, some just couldn't help but try to extrapolate Simpson's death into some kind of current racial divide. 

As my colleague Ben Kew reported, a CNN reporter had a Freudian slip in the immediate aftermath in which she claimed that members of the black community were "happy" to see Simpson acquitted because he was a black man getting away with killing people. 

READ: CNN Reporter Has Freudian Slip Discussing Death of O.J. 

CNN REPORTER: That is why so many people, who may not have been invested in O.J. Simpson, were just happy to see that someone who is rich and famous, and black, could get away with... er... with what other people did in the system, as well, too.

The moral degeneracy it takes to hold that view is hard to fathom, but apparently, CNN wasn't done. In perhaps an even more egregious statement, analyst Ashley Allison claimed that the black community felt a connection to Simpson because he killed "two white people." 

WTF: CNN Contributor suggests black people identified with OJ because he k*lled white people.

“[OJ] represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who had been k*lled.”

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ALLISON: But it was so racially charged because of what had happened just before with Rodney King, but also just how black Americans feel about policing. It's not like O.J. Simpson was the leader of the civil rights movement in his era. He wasn't a social justice leader, but he represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who had been killed. And the history around how black people have been persecuted during slavery.

There were just so many layers, and I guess I would just close with them, is that, there was racial tension then. There is racial tension now. It may not be the backdrop of the Trump campaign, but until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial dynamics from our origin story until today, we will always have moments like O.J. Simpson that manifests and our country will always be divided if we don't actually deal with the issue of race."

I'm almost speechless listening to that. I simply can not understand how someone can be so sociopathic and selfish that they would suggest it's justified to support the murders of two people as a way to fuel racial grievance. That is exactly what she's saying. She is defending those who wanted Simpson acquitted not because he was innocent, but because two white people being killed was somehow getting even. It's simply unbelievable. 

As to Allison's demand for an "honest conversation" about race, here's an honest conversation for her. She is a horrible human being who is sowing dangerous divisions for personal gain. I don't care how historically aggrieved one feels, that is not an excuse to justify the murders of other people. Is there no basic decency anymore, and does CNN have no on-air standards for its analysts? I can only imagine the outrage if the tables were turned and the races reversed

Here's my final reaction to this. I'm sick and tired of racism being excused and even celebrated under the guise of historical oppression. Allison is not a victim. She is a racist, and her racism is no more appropriate than if such a statement left the mouth of a white person. This garbage should be scorned, not normalized. It is simply depraved to think of other races with such a lack of value and care.