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Tom Joyner Offers to Pay Education Costs for Trayvon Martin Friend Jeantel
The Afro ^ | 7/19/13 | Alexis Taylor

Posted on 07/22/2013 5:54:24 AM PDT by YourAdHere

Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel will enjoy a full ride to any historically black college or university of her choosing thanks to radio personality, philanthropist, and media executive Tom Joyner.

The 63-year-old made an offer to pay for all of Jeantel’s education needs on open air July 16, and the 19-year-old accepted in an interview on HLN the following day.

“If there’s something that I can help her do—that she wants to do—I want to help,” Joyner said during a phone interview with Jeantel and her attorney, Rod Vereen, during The Tom Joyner Show.

Joyner made the offer after viewing Jeantel’s July 15 interview with Piers Morgan, during which Morgan asked Jeantel what she and Trayvon Martin were talking about in the numerous conversations they had during his last day of life, Feb. 26, 2012.

When Jeantel said the two had been talking about what they wanted to do in the future, Joyner noticed that Morgan gave no follow up questions as to what the teen actually plans to do with her life.

During her two days testifying in the George Zimmerman murder trial, Jeantel was scrutinized and pummeled by defense attorneys, news outlets, and social media for her communication skills and her attitude during her testimony about her friendship and final phone calls with the late Trayvon Martin.

Jeantel was the voice on the other end of the phone just minutes before Zimmerman, 29, shot Martin, 17. And though the tri-lingual teen did clarify within her first two minutes on the stand that her father is from the Dominican Republic and mother is Haitian, she was still deemed ignorant and uneducated for not having complete mastery of English, her third language, despite other full-blooded American witnesses misspeaking as well.

“You have touched me,” Joyner told Jeantel, before offering her a college education which she says will be connected in some way to the criminal justice system. “If you want to do that, I want to help you do that. I will help you get tutors to help you get out of high school, tutors to help you pass the SAT and I will give you a full ride scholarship to any HBCU you like.”

There are a total of 105 HBCU campuses in the United States of America, and one located in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“Having been pilloried and ridiculed in the national media, Ms. Jeantel will be able to realize her educational aspirations in a welcoming and supportive environment, while sharing the richness of her Haitian Creole, Spanish, American tri-cultural, tri-lingual background,” Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity, said in a statement.

“While a number of HBCUs would serve her well, off of the top of my head, I would suggest that Ms. Jeantel consider Southern University New Orleans(SUNO) because of the French Creole culture in New Orleans, and because SUNO has one of the nation's leading criminal justice programs, the field of study she desires to pursue,” Baskerville said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackrage; crybaby; holder; murderer; stupidity
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Reminds me of when Jesse offered to pay Crystal Magnum's tuition.
1 posted on 07/22/2013 5:54:24 AM PDT by YourAdHere
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yeah I don’t imagine she will want to take this on, not cool


2 posted on 07/22/2013 5:56:50 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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If she does go the only thing she will get on her test papers is drool.


3 posted on 07/22/2013 5:59:35 AM PDT by Autonomous User (Pain Fades. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory, lasts forever.)
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Does Harvard offer a bachelor’s degree in cursive writing?


4 posted on 07/22/2013 6:01:03 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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She’ll bankrupt the man!


6 posted on 07/22/2013 6:01:38 AM PDT by old and tired
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I imagine all the lib professors will pencil whip her grades, and she’ll be handed a diploma she can’t read.


7 posted on 07/22/2013 6:02:05 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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The tax payers in Florida already paid for her education. That did a lot of good didn’t it?


8 posted on 07/22/2013 6:04:34 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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How about a more realistic goal, - - like an elementary education first??


9 posted on 07/22/2013 6:05:17 AM PDT by trailz
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McDonald's has hamburger college!!!!
10 posted on 07/22/2013 6:05:47 AM PDT by ontap (***)
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Tom might want to pay for some remedial elementary school and high school education first. His investment is not likely to produce the results intended by college studies. First, one needs to know how to read, write and do basic math. None of these were demonstrated on the witness stand.


12 posted on 07/22/2013 6:08:52 AM PDT by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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She needs all the education she can get.


13 posted on 07/22/2013 6:10:12 AM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Causing trouble since 1976)
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I will give you a full ride scholarship to any HBCU you like.

HBCU = "Historically Black College/University"

Can I play the race card here?

14 posted on 07/22/2013 6:10:15 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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He’ll go broke in two years.............


15 posted on 07/22/2013 6:14:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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Great! Send her to IU....Imbecile University.


16 posted on 07/22/2013 6:15:07 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Democrats + Unions + Corruption= Detroit.)
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Do any educational institute offer an Elementary School GED?


17 posted on 07/22/2013 6:20:10 AM PDT by Alex in chains
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To: YourAdHere; flaglady47; mickie; seekthetruth; Chigirl 26; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; surfer; ...
"During her two days of testimony, Jeantel was SCRUTINIZED and PUMMELED by defense attorneys."

The dipstick writer of this heartstrings drivel must have been watching a different trial than I.

I watched the entire testimony of this budding brain surgeon-ette and saw how she was treated with kid gloves and probing-but-polite questions by the defense.

And, of course, anyone on a witness stand is "scrutinized"....that's why they're on the stand in the first place.

I think everyone who watched her obnoxious shenanigans and arrogant disrespect for our legal system wanted to stick a fist through the TV and slap her upside the face.

The whole re-telling of the Trayvon case has taken on a fictitious, almost mythological life of its own.....and the idiot "journalist" above and his ilk just add to the revisionism.

Leni

18 posted on 07/22/2013 6:23:00 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Barack Hussein Obama....the 44th white African president of the United States)
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Hope it makes him feel good, although a scholarship for a deserving kid would be better.


19 posted on 07/22/2013 6:24:00 AM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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Why stop with Jeantel, Tom? There are millions like her all over the country.


20 posted on 07/22/2013 6:26:05 AM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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