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.
.....”attorney Rod Vereen worked to get Jeantel on the right track by gathering tutors, psychologists and mentors”.....”
All plural”....
Doesn’t sound to me like a village....rather a hosts of medical and educational teams to get this gal going...and likely at taxpayer expense.
So it appears this is what it takes to get people as her through ‘high school’ with any chance of a life beyond the welfare roles? Won’t happen for most...and can’t.
What happens when this team of advisors etc. leave her to herself and she discovers a real job takes more work for what she would otherwise get from the welfare rolls?
I’d like to think she will do the right thing...I have many doubts though.
From the beginning of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman was on the phone with the local police dispatcher. Master Trayvon was on the phone with this individual.
I hope she goes on to a crime-free, self-supporting life. It's like feeding one person ... doesn't "solve" hunger, but you feed one person.
She will contact that lawyer again and sue her employer.
We snicker because of the politically correct overtones, not because we aren’t glad she graduated from high school. Everyone’s glad about THAT — better late than never, and may she get a job, too! (Better than my paying for welfare.)
A nice thought, but being the cynic I am, I would guess she will go to college on Pell grants (welfare $$$) and student loans. Wasn’t she going to become a lawyer, not a clothing designer?
Good for her.
I’m assuming her “promise” did not include learning English or dropping 150 pounds.
“Yethterday I couldn’t even thpell undergrad; today I are one!”
Yeah, I think traditional college is oversold even for those who can read cursive and speak goodly English, so that definitely leaves her out.
I don’t have to make my mark on my EBT card!
She’ll be 21 in Feb.
Amerika: swirling down the drain
Good for her.
I hear the White Hut is looking for a new press secretary.
She’ll be accepted into at least one college, regardless of her GPA. It’s likely that she won’t pay a penny while there as well.
She’s effectively illiterate. I wonder how many people St. Martin would have killed by now had Zimmerman not smoked him. At least one (Zimmerman).
Ask her when the Constitution was written, how many amendments there are, when did WW2 start, what’s 4x4...
That’s what I remembered. Dang. All that time and never learned cursive.
No, but thanks to common core they just quit teaching it altogether. That way all kids can be equally ignorant.
By today's standards, that is nothing to brag about, sweetie.
I did not write this in cursive, just for you.
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