Posted on 05/24/2017 10:09:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Missy Elliot gave a subtle nod to Trayvon Martin with a sample in 2015's "WTF (Where They From)."
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The fact that was recently unearthed in a stunning profile for Elle by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. BuzzFeed's Saeed Jones pointed out the excerpt from the profile out on Twitter on Thursday.
The sample was the voice of Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin's teenage friend who was also the last person to speak to him just moments before he was gunned down by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012.
Zimmerman was later acquitted of criminal charges related to Martin's death, but it was Jeantel who was symbolically tried, too, with observers criticizing her weight and grammar. At one point during the trial, Zimmerman's defense attorney, Don West, made pointed out dramatically to the jury that Jeantel could not read cursive.
Here's a portion of her testimony before the court, which was picked apart by CNN in 2013.
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The sample is important, Kaadzi Ghansah writes, because it's so rare. "Pharrell and [Missy] have done a remarkable thing that has reversed what usually happens to the words of girls who look like Rachel Jeantel," Ghansah writes. "They have preserved them for the record, credited her for her voice and her words, and made sure she got paid."
You can read the full profile over at Elle.
She was the best witness for the defense.
“gunned down” - what garbage. If he hadn’t attacked Zimmerman he’d still be alive.
“That’s retarded”
>Jeantel could not read cursive.
This ignorant, racist and useless POS could not read sign language, much less English. She is an glaring example of the problem with American citizens...dumb, stupid and they don’t even know it.
I blame their parents or lack thereof.
>an glaring example
Obviously, for proper grammar purpose I meant “a glaring example.”
She is guilty either way.
The cursive issue went to her credibility since a letter she had purportedly written in cursive had in fact been penned by someone else.
Ed
I was thinking maybe they sampled where she told St Skittles that Zimmerman was following him because he looked gay.
Creepy ass
Creepy ass
Creepy ass cracker
I am not absence of sympathy for a true looser like her...
A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...
Just a “come on” from the whores on 7th Avenue...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUEL7vw60U
That’s a conflation of:
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles,
Such are ppromises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.
and ...
Asking only workman’s wages
I come looking for a job,
But I get no offers.
Just a come-on from the whores
On Seventh Avenue
No matter! No matter! ... Just sayin’
I hear ya! It all takes me back to my red-headed aunt and my teenage defense of her.
Never, ever mess with family. If we are loaded, we will unload.
Say hi to the new school.
The school of Jabba the Hut?
Headline:
HAS-BEEN SAMPLES HALF WIT
The canonization of George Zimmerman’s attacker is ridiculous.
What’s a Missy Eliot?
Bet he wouldn’t have a degree though or be an honorary astronaut...
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