Someone on twitter posted a clip from Oprah when the verdict was read. All the blacks were cheering, most of the whites were sullen with a handful cheering with the blacks. And the "cut to commercial" at the end is telling too.

I was in elementary school when the trial was going on, and I vaguely remember my dad saying the trial/verdict probably set race relations back a number of years. I don't think I fully understood what he meant at the time, and now I think he was probably being optimistic.