"Some but not all. I don't read cursive."
Cyrillics? Sanskrit? How about Klingon?
Hebrew? Arabic?
Posted on 06/27/2013 7:09:04 AM PDT by iowamark
A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.
In a painfully embarassing moment, Rachel Jeantel was asked to read the letter out loud in court.
"Are you able to read that at all?" defense attorney Don West asked.
Jeantel, head bowed, eyes averted whispered into the court microphone, "Some but not all. I don't read cursive."
It sent a hush through the packed courtroom.
Jeantel, 19, was unable to read any of the letter save for her name...
During nearly two hours of cross examination Wednesday in which he tried to raise questions about her version of events and accused her of telling several lies under oath, including about her whereabouts during Martin's wake.
"Under oath, you created a lie and said you went to the hospital?" asked West.
"Yes," responded Jeantel. She said she lied because she didn't want to see the body.
Jeantel became increasingly agitated and scoffed when West told her that she would have to continue testifying.
She is seen as a critical witness to the prosecution because she is the only person able to say that Martin claimed that he noticed a strange man following him and that he was scared. Jeantel said Martin described the stranger as a "creepy ass cracker."
Jeantel said Martin, 17, was walking home during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game when he became unnerved because he was being followed.
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That's why she said he was a "creepy ass cracker." When asked about it today, she said that was said because GZ might have been a "pervert."
She goaded him into attacking GZ by questioning his manhood, wondering whether he would let himself be stalked by a homo.
That's also why she didn't call the police; she probably thought TM would kick the white homo's butt and alerting the authorities would be snitching.
My son used to write cursive - but not sure anymore. However, he did pass his college English essay for literacy that he needs to graduate from college. It was his application essay about “Why I want to attend XYZ University.” Of course now I have concerns about the college he will be attending!
many of the tweeter posters were saying something similar which is ironic because this goes on nightly in Chicago with innocent people gunned down and nary a thought about Black upon Black crime.
Yeah, what's up with that?
>Why black people understand Rachel Jeantel,
>What white people don't understand about Rachel Jeantel.
>The smearing of Rachel Jeantel.
>Cracker not a racial term.
Goodness gracious. Let's just call it like it is.
Blacks watching out for blacks in an effort to get over on whitey.
I believe you have the right of it, sir.
That’s a good point.
Here, we see evidence that in some cases, it never made it off the starting line.
They would have to take a hard look at their communities and ask some tough questions and have some hard answers. They (self and media proclaimed “leaders”) don’t want to do that.
No amount of excuse making will hide the fact that this woman is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
"Some but not all. I don't read cursive."
Cyrillics? Sanskrit? How about Klingon?
Hebrew? Arabic?
If Michelle Obama had a daughter, she'd look like Rachel Jeantel. In a few years.
That's a cruel and insensitive thing to say about a bag of hammers. And, after all, a bag of hammers has the potential for accomplishing something useful.
Now go out, take a hammer in your hand, give it a little squeeze, and apologize to it.
Didn't find himself much of a shooter, either. Never take [just] a bag of Skittles to a gunfight.
Darwin award for cleaning out the Gene pool if ever there was one.
Me neither.
Where’s the hippo picture? Was that removed?
It’s right there at post #4. I just took a look at it.
Ha, ha, I meant the one where a Freeper put the face on a hippo body. A friend told me it was on one of the threads, but maybe she was jivin’ ;-)
I had reached that point in college. I clipped the nib of a (real ink) pen, and made an italics pen out of it. That forced me to write more neatly in order to avoid just putting a blob of ink on the page. To this day, unless I am looking into the microscope when I write and track over a line twice, I can usually read what I write, and others can, too.
Where I went to school, nothing was dumbed down, but students were separated into sections depending on academic and standardized test scores.
Classes were integrated, still, but those not left behind were taught at a more appropriate level and those who were ahead stayed there.
Now, the mix has been shuffled to keep the fastest held back with the slowest (self-esteem stuff), and a sad result is that many bright kids who might have done well get bored out of their tree, have no options, and end up either getting in trouble or just quitting.
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