I’ll be 28 later in the year, and I went to school with a few kids that had difficulty reading.
I'll be 63 later in the year and I did too. However the difference between the ones I knew and this witness is that they knew how to write and speak proper English.
This is a cultural thing. This witness is a product of her environment where there is no desire to learn in school, no parents educated enough to train her how to speak properly or discipline her for bad behavior. Her parents (or parent) are likely just as ignorant as she is.
Notice her tweets, they're all about smoking and drinking and she's only 19 years old.........
There's a big difference between not being able to read due to a dyslexia and not being able to read because you had no desire to learn and no one in your family forcing you to.......
As a side note, in the course of my employment in HR for my company in Detroit, I came across many black employees coming in to retire who could not read or write. In almost every case they had grown up in the deep south and moved to Detroit in their late teens to find work without finishing high school.
There's a big difference between their reason for not being proficient in the three RRR's and today's black youths........