Posted on 05/30/2014 2:01:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donning a white cap and gown, Rachel Jeantel came through on a promise to her late friend, Trayvon Martin, this Friday. She graduated from high school.
Jeantel was the last to speak to 17-year-old Martin, moments before the unarmed teenager was shot dead by George Zimmerman in 2012. Jeantel later served as a key witness for the prosecution.
Unlike those that mocked Jeantel’s speech and mannerisms during the trial, Martin allegedly never judged Jeantel for her personality or the way she spoke.
According to Jeantel, Martin “cared about you. That’s a good human.”
Miami defense and civil rights attorney Rod Vereen worked to get Jeantel on the right track by gathering tutors, psychologists and mentors to take her from an elementary school reading and math level to high school graduation with the help of the Tom Joyner Foundation.
“When they say it takes a village to raise a child, this is what has happened here,” said Vereen.
The future for Jeantel includes continued meetings with tutors, a university education and a potential career as a clothing designer.
“The witness who didn’t know how to speak English knows how to speak English through the 12th grade now. I never quit,” she told Yahoo News.
Jeantel says Martin's presence still filled the room through the attendance of his mother, Sybrina Fulton.
“Her coming is like having Trayvon there saying, ‘You did it. You proved people wrong," she told Yahoo News.
Probably because he was just as illiterate as she was,
So she can write in cursive now?
Oh, please. We graduate illiterates every day. What is she now, 20? 21? Congrats.
They’re just going to run with their fictitious narrative.
Did she actually graduate or did they hand her a diploma because they were scared not to?
Perhaps she could really challenge herself a pursue a degree in cursive.
Probably not. They don't teach it in school anymore.
That’s real retarded.
I’m happy for her. I hope she makes something of herself and avoids the welfare trap.
Yes...in today’s world she apparently is “college material”. What a bad joke on her and on society.
now she will say “That is retardid sah” in a scholarly voice.
“When they say it takes a village to raise a child, this is what has happened here,” said Vereen.”
It takes a village to raise a kid when the Father isn’t around. Don’t know how to solve that problem. Maybe create a testicle bank and hold people’s gonads until they can prove they are adult enough to understand the consequences of misusing them.
Hopefully this young lady goes on to be a successful career person in her field of chosen endeavor, and judging by the obstacles she has already overcome, I am sure she will.
The real tragedy of Martin is no one seems to have come away with the right lessons.
Don’t play cop if you aren’t one. And don’t go acting like macho man when you don’t have any idea who you going to beat down. If either Martin or Zimmerman had simply called law enforcement instead of playing Dick Tracy or Tough guy, Martin would be alive today and Zimmerman would be a happier man.
You can bet that Tray was going to use stand your ground after he killed Zimmerman....the very law everyone accused Zimmerman of using. In the end, it was a simple self defense case.
Rachel....as prejudice at it comes.
When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
attorney Rod Vereen worked to get Jeantel on the right track by gathering tutors, psychologists and mentorsAll plural.
Social promotion?
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