She reportedly suggested to Trayvon that Zimmerman might be a rapist. Now, why would that thought enter her mind? Implication appears to be that Trayvon was homosexual. 6/27/2013 testimony of Rachel Jeantel
WEST: Well, what culture is that, where people describe other people as creepy ass crackers?
JEANTEL: Pervert.
WEST: I'm sorry? Do you understand what I mean by the culture, the culture that you were raised in, the culture that ‑
JEANTEL: The area I was raised, you’re saying to say?
ATTORNEY: Right. I’ll say it this way: The people that you live around and with call white people creepy ass crackers?
JEANTEL: Not creepy but cracker, yeah.
ATTORNEY: So the creepy is the pervert part that you were talking about?
JEANTEL: No.
"Ass cracker" is defined in urbandictionary as "one who engages in anal sex." If that is to be believed, then Jeantel was trying to be polite in court. West was not getting it. From Jeantel's perspective, West was being dense for not getting ghetto slang, and as a witness, it was not her job to respond more than the minimum necessary to answer the question.
Why would defense want to plant that suspicion among an all female jury? Weakness, sympathy.
It is actually the prosecution witness, Jeantel, who used the term, but only in allegedly quoting Martin. If Jeantel is to be believed, Martin was saying that he thought Z was following him because Z was homosexual and sexually interested in him.
[["Ass cracker" is defined in urbandictionary as "one who engages in anal sex." If that is to be believed, then Jeantel was trying to be polite in court.]] Reading motive into someone's unclear sentence structrures- it coudl just as well be read 'creepy ass' cracker- akin to saying 'he's one creepy ass football player' or whatever- it doesn't have to mean 'ass cracker' as defined by urban dictionary- it wil lbe a stretch tryign to prove one way or the toher just what the timing of the sentence referred to- wehther it was 'creepy ass' cracker, or whether it was creepy 'ass cracker' [[If Jeantel is to be believed, Martin was saying that he thought Z was following him because Z was homosexual and sexually interested in him.]] Again, that is a stretch- it's very possible martin was not aware that the term ass cracker meant homo- we know that black folks refer to white folks as 'cracker' and it's 'likely' martin knew that too and is why he used the term- but again- one can't know for certain what the itnent of the wording meant- as described above- Had west continued the questioning as follows i nthe hypothetical scenario, then we coudl say for certain martin meant it to mean he thought george was gay WEST: so creepy doesn't mean pervert i nyour culture, so I msut ask, does 'ass cracker' mean pervert then? JEANTEL: Yes. WEST: Did martin often refere to gay peopel as 'ass crackers'? ‑ JEANTEL: Yes, he always referred to gay peopel as ass crackers ATTORNEY: Did martin ever use the term 'creepy ass' to describe say a football player, or white person, or whatever? JEANTEL: Not that I know of- I never heard him use such a term ATTORNEY: So the 'ass cracker' is the pervert part that you were talking about? JEANTEL: Yes. (They probably woudl have had to have been much more caREFUL in their questioning than that scenario- but you get the idea- I don't think West went on far enough i nthe questionign to establish the differecne between 'ass cracker' and 'creepy ass'