Posted on 06/28/2013 8:23:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I must admit, I’m kinda feeling Rachel Jeantel.
While watching the proceedings in the George Zimmerman trial in the death of Trayvon Martin, I have found the two days of testimony by the last person to speak with the 17-year-old student to be nothing short of riveting.
Let’s be honest. Jeantel is not your average witness. She is a 19-year-old Miami resident who is due to complete high school next year. Her speech mannerisms are utterly urban, about as far from the queen’s English as one could imagine. And her disposition on the stand ranged from annoyance to sheer antagonism.
Yet, what was incredibly fascinating about watching her on the stand was her clear determination to be herself and to stand firm in presenting her account of the events on the night Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman in February of last year.
She was peppered with questions by Zimmerman’s lawyers, who were determined to portray her as a witness with varying accounts and to cast her as being less than credible. But no matter what was thrown at her, she showed a determination to, well, stand her ground.
Jeantel is, of course, a star witness for the prosecution. She testified about the cell phone conversation she had with her close friend Trayvon Martin as he walked from a 7-11 convenience store to the home of his father’s fiancée in a gated apartment complex in Sanford, Florida, one evening. She talked about how her teenaged friend, Trayvon, had talked about his consuming interest in getting to the house and watching the NBA All-Star game.
She maintained that Trayvon was annoyed by the fact that he was being followed by a “creepy-a-- cracker,” a term he apparently used for Zimmerman and one that was apparently the source of captivation and undue focus by the defense attorneys. She told, in heartbreaking detail, how she heard Trayvon ask Zimmerman why he was following him. She told of the last thing she heard her teenage friend say on the phone, “Get off. Get off.”
Throughout her time on the stand, the lawyers for Zimmerman sought to find ways to puncture her credibility, often in condescending and pejorative ways. In fact, her time on the stand was so protracted because defense attorney Don West constantly asked her to repeat herself, to talk slowly, as if he were seeking to understand the language of an alien from another planet.
The daughter of Haitian and Dominican immigrants, Jeantel’s first language was Creole. She later picked up English and has clearly become conversant in the language of urban Miami. But West continued to speak to her as if she were some outlandish extraterrestrial rather than a teenager. He asked her about the expressions used in “your culture,” as though teenagers of all races don’t have their own linguistic idiosyncrasies.
Through it all, Jeantel would not be moved or dissuaded. She made it abundantly plain that she was not impressed with the authority of this lawyer and showed she could volley with the best of them. “What are you talking about?” she asked West at one point. “What are you saying?”
Jeantel is a teenager who has been thrust into an extraordinary situation. She is a star witness in one of the most highly watched trials in modern times, testifying about a phone call with a friend who was killed shortly after their telephone conversation. She admitted to feeling guilty about being Trayvon’s last conversational partner and not knowing how deadly that moment was for him. She never hid who she was or how she felt. Clearly she was reluctant and displeased about being there.
She has already been a highly talked about figure in the world of the Internet, with some finding her appalling and others applauding her (I suspect that how one views her has a great deal to do with one's familiarity with African-American teenagers). Her feelings are readily understandable and it's refreshing to see her resolve to state her perspective, even if it means refusing to kowtow to lawyers questioning her.
She is impressive to me because she never swayed from presenting Trayvon Martin as a young man who was thinking of nothing more sinister than the jump shots he hoped to see on television later that night. It remains to be seen what the jury will do with that information. But for her part, she presented it in a way that was consistent and that did justice to her friend.
She picked up English? No, she picked up ghetto illiteracy, and fanatical anti-white racism. Which kept her in good standing as part of the Democratic base.
Another Barf-worthy article!
Employer? She’ll be on TANF, Section 8, Food Stamps, PROMISE and Government Cheese for life. Out of your pocket. And she is legion.
In 1988 a movie came out by the name “They Live”. It was a minor production and didn’t exactly wow them at the box office but it had a premise that struck a resonant chord with me.
In this SiFi flick “Nada” unwittingly dons a pair of special sunglasses that allows him to see things the rest of us are oblivious to. Hilarity ensues (I wish I was just kidding).
I look at scenes like the GZ trial and see people like Rachel, a borderline personality if I ever saw one, and then read or hear klowns like Jonathan singing her praises and I have to wonder if I’m the only one who sees through her bullsh!t. Or his.
There is nothing attractive, intriguing, alluring, or interesting about this girl. She is crude, feral, belligerent, and likely retarded. She does not know how to function in civil society and furthermore doesn’t give a rats rearend.
I would bet a months salary that he is being anything but sincere, but I’d lose either way. The mere fact that he scribbles this crap should be enough for any normal person to projectile vomit.
I hate it that I can see this madness - I wish that I could tear off the glasses and crush them underfoot and once again see the world of normals - the one I grew up in. Alas, those days are dead and gone.
What? She’s 19 and won’t complete high school until NEXT YEAR??
graduating high school at 20?? she’s an idiot. pure and simple. the perfect example of a liberally controlled education system
fat, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life...
unless you vote democrat. then you’ll be in line for a six figure govt job with a lifetime retirement package after 10-15 years of 30 hr weeks
“...can she even spell the word “ground” or use it in a sentence?”
Probably too many syllables to keep track of.
Apparently the US blacks have no recognition that they are with the rest of America in the struggle against Islam.
see, what you white ass crackers don’t understand about blacks,....
i’d love for a white person to call them on it. How does any black person know what whites do or don’t understand, they aren’t white. yet they somehow speak with authority on what whites do or don’t know about blacks.
We only can feel sorry for both poor creatures. Neither had enough brains to understand the other - or the world. They didn't understand that either.
Right you are!
Shouldn’t the subject line be:
“A Witness for Trayvon Who Be Standin’ She Groun’, N***a”?
Let’s be honest. Jeantel is not your average witness. She is a 19-year-old Miami resident who is due to complete high school next year.
Let’s be honest, next year she’ll be two years overdue to complete high school.
Don't bet your next plate of hamburgers on that, Jonathan.
Then she needs to know that CWII isn’t going to work out well for her.
Its moronic articles like this make me think the movie “Idiocracy” is a documentary.
I’m convinced some gifted savant from the future sent it back as a warning.
The education system was dumbed down to benefit the blacks. It not only didn’t work, it also lowered the standards for everyone else. Then capable teachers started leaving the field. Plus, those who could be good teachers refused to go into education. And that snowball keeps rolling downhill.
Mr. Hicks, you’re an idiot.
This witness was HORRIBLE for the prosecution. She admitted she can’t read cursive yet signed her depo that was in cursive. It was clear to anyone with a normal brain she was tracked down by Crump and told what to say about what Martin was telling her on the phone that night. “Dee Dee” is the reason they could finally charge Zimmerman, they needed her to bring Zimmerman to trial. This DA and prosecutor are as vile as Nifong knowingly having people feed her what to say about Martin’s conversation right before he jumped and hit Zimmerman.
For this moron to write she stood her ground is funny. She was just talking in circles, lying, and coming across as someone that was told what to say. I can’t believe all the women on this jury believed her, if they could even understand her.
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