Othello and O.J. Simpson

I was reading some info on Othello and saw a comparison to the O.J. Simpson case, so I thought I'd look into it...
O.J. Simpson was a black American man of quite high status. A major NFL star and a lead protagonist in a popular American soap, O.J. became one of the most famous criminal defendants, on trial for the murder of his ex-wife and her male friend. OK so he was found to be innocent and Othello definately did kill his wife but in both cases there is a racial issue.
At the start of the play Othello is a popular man but discriminated against when he marries Desdemona. The end of the play sees Othello realising he shouldn't have killed Desdemona and he then commits suicide. The whole series of events is due to mastermind Iago's cunning plan to take over Cassio's job and when people finally realised Iago was the villain, many people are dead and the only option is to send him to torture and execution.
Simpson was popular with pretty much the entire American population but when his wife was brutally murdered there was a divide between the black and white population. Could a black man find justice in a legal system designed and mainly run by whites? His case became less about the murders of two innocent victims and more about racism and bigotry. The lawyers employed were willing to do anything to achieve their objective; turning their client, an accused double murderer, into some kind of political prisoner.
One major difference to be noted between the two is that Othello took responsibility for killing his wife. In real life O. J. Simpson took a plane to Chicago at a time where it would have been possible for him to commit the murders then leave the state.

Hope you've been enlightened

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Scarlett xx