Posted on 07/12/2014 11:01:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been just over a year since the world was introduced to Rachel Jeantel, the friend of Trayvon Martin’s who testified on behalf of the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, but may have ended up doing more harm than good.
CNN caught up with Jeantel this week, asking her if she blamed herself when Zimmerman went free. “A little bit,” she replied. Asked if she should have said something different or acted differently on the stand, she answered, “Act different.” Jeantel said the jurors in the case didn’t take her seriously as a witness, judging her for the way she looks and talks.
While Jeantel’s reading level was not above that of a third grader last summer, she has since turned her life around, undergoing intensive tutoring and graduating from high school this spring. She now credits the turnaround to her experience with the trial, saying she kept her word to Trayvon Martin to complete her high school education.
But the frank attitude she displayed in the courtroom was still there when the reporter asked her what she would say to Zimmerman today. “He did wrong, and he’s got to man up to it,” she said. “To me, you’re not a man, George Zimmerman’s not a man. That’s still a little boy, with a grown body.”
Watch video below, via CNN:
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For her background, she did the best she possibly could. Only one person was to blame, Treyvon Martin
The only way she could have helped is if they had not put her on the stand. Slow is slow.
I guess you're right. A 21-year-old reading at the third grade level wouldn't have flown at my high school.
That's a bucketload of BS, right there. The Purple Drank connoisseur and Shrek having such a deep conversation about education that he elicits a promise from her to graduate? Yeah, sure....and I'm the Queen of England.
Jenny Craig ? Hell, try SeaWorld.
That Common Core schoolin’ be some awesome stuff, don’t it?
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