Posted on 06/05/2014 7:35:45 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The young woman walking across the stage in cap and gown in front of hundreds of celebrants has a familiar face. Even outside of this high school auditorium, she is recognized. On city streets here, strangers walk up to her and say, awkwardly, “Oh my God, you’re the girl from the Trayvon Martin case.” ¶ Nothing angers Rachel Jeantel more. Martin was not the one on trial. ¶ “Trayvon is the victim!” she often snaps back. “He did nothing.” ¶ A year after Jeantel became a central figure in the trial of George Zimmerman, who had killed her 17-year-old friend, there remains within her a flash of the fire she showed on the witness stand — that sass and bravado, defiant body language layered over deep hurt. Heavy sighs and folded arms. ¶ “Why he need to lie about that, sir?” she challenged a defense lawyer at one point during her testimony. ¶ “You listening?” she said at another. ¶ The nationally televised trial projected her full-figured image, her words, her urban African American dialect into the national consciousness. Jeantel, the last person to speak to Martin before he was killed, unwittingly became a proxy for pitched cultural debate, a stand-in for projections about race, class and especially all the things Americans — black and white — want, don’t want and can’t tolerate seeing in young black women. ¶ “I had to laugh it off,” Jeantel, 20, later says of the ubiquitous television, social-media and water-cooler commentary last August that derided her weight, her manner of speaking and her style of dress.
“No. Be honest,” the middle-aged woman sitting next to Jeantel interrupts, sternly.
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The woman is Rose Reeder, who has become part of Jeantel’s “village,” an extended network of mentors, tutors and advisers — black professionals all.
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BARF!!!
Well you know the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a hippo...”
That’s jus re ta ed sir
I must have missed that part of the trial.
LMAO!
If a moron like that can graduate, how much is a diploma really worth?
Hippos like candy bars. I seen it on the second “Librarian” movie.
Can she read cursive now?
Is anyone else troubled about her appearance at the trial? The letter she was asked to read, in cursive, was supposedly a letter she herself had written. Yet, when asked to read it aloud, she had to admit she couldn’t read cursive.
My question is, why wasn’t this an issue in the trial? She can’t read a letter she supposedly wrote?
She was interviewed on the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show.”
Joyner offered to pay for Jeantel’s college tuition at a historically black college of her choosing.
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Jeantel accepted Joyner’s offer, but she had missed nearly a full year of high school because of the investigation and trial, and there had already been gaps in her education. Vereen says an assessment showed Jeantel was reading and doing mathematics on a fourth-grade level.
That graduation cap looks like a Dixie cup on a bowling ball.
We are all old school, according to her. She and her generation are with it. The rest of us are old school, we’re not with it.
And Trayvon just wanted to do a “whup ass” on Zimmerman. Zimmerman should be familiar enough with ghetto culture to know that Trayvon just wanted to rough him up a bit, to show him who is boss.
The case against Zimmerman effectively disappeared once this creature was on the stand and she was asked to review a signed statement that she had allegedly written describing the events of the night Martin died ... and she was forced to admit that she couldn't read cursive writing.
LOLOL!!
Fat chance of it costing him anything. An HBCU education, provided you are historically black, costs nothing.
Of course that was an issue in the trial. That’s probably one of the biggest reasons why the jury acquitted Zimmerman.
Can you hear it?
That's the sound of wet grass.
She’s graduating from High School at age 20?
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