O.J. Simpson’s story is built on America’s national sins

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O.J. Simpson’s story is built on America’s national sins

O.J. Simpson at a Buffalo Bills football game against the Denver Broncos at Rich Stadium on October 5, 1975, in Orchard Park, New York.  | George Gojkovich/Getty Images O.J. Simpson is dead. His infamous story has become an American myth. The news of O.J. Simpson’s death — of cancer at the age of 76 — falls uneasily. O.J. Simpson is an uneasy figure. Thinking of him, you think of the power and glamour of his rise to stardom; you think of the h…