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Posted on 06/28/2013 5:46:37 AM PDT by DCBryan1
If ever I thought myself objective and unbiased, the George Zimmerman trial is definitely not that moment.
So let's cut to the chase. Any attorney, jury member, judge or white person in that courtroom is not going to understand Rachel Jeantel. And I don't expect them to.
In fact, I certainly, like my fellow writer Rachel Samara, understand why white people wouldn't like Rachel.
She's hard. She's black. And your assumptions about her background and lack of education make you feel like you are better, somehow. That her testimony, no matter how powerful and impactful it may be to this trial, is implausible. Weak, maybe? Let's impeach her.
But maybe the reason white people don't understand Rachel Jeantel has something more to do with white privilege then, what they would call, Rachel's capricious nature.
Let's for one second try to understand why Rachel is "angry" (read emotional), "hood" (read blunt), and "unintelligent" (read multilingual).
The thing is, what white people see in Rachel has little to do about her own issues, and more to say about the America that white people are blind to. Let's take her testimony on not calling the police, for example.
Read more: http://globalgrind.com/news/what-black-people-understand-about-rachel-jeantel-christina-coleman-blog#ixzz2XVxgVWcV
(Excerpt) Read more at globalgrind.com ...
Is white privilege something like equal justice under the law based on evidence not color or outcome, the constitutional protections of the bill of rights that were once afforded to all but are now abrogated for radical and racial objectives, reward for productive work in a free and open market, the possibility of intact family solidarity by faithfulness, discipline, faith and work?
Or is white privilege mean lack of ability to jump and run fast? Maybe it is ability to ski and play hockey? Maybe it is the privilege not to be murdered in their mother's womb?
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.
Multilinqual? From what I saw and heard, the young woman is barely monolingual.
You forgot your middle name: Assed...
He’s still here...
I’ve been watching that n00b. I have a feeling there will be ozone in its future.
It was a joke. No zot will be forthcoming.
I’m one-a the crackas. lol
It was a JOKE!!!! LOL
I couldn’t resist the name. I should have included a sarcasm tag, my bad. :-)))
lol
Dangit, you know, then, how we enjoy a good zot!
“...and she’s ‘hard’ - whatever the hell that means.”
Means she’d probably stick a knife in you given half an excuse.
She probably has been bred enough to start a large corporation. Her food stamp allotation is probably more than your salary each month.
“This is a mess. Not until Rev Wright did I start to understand how truly great the divide is between us. The bitter anger on both sides is so destructive it’s amazing we’ve come as far as we have.”
Not cruising for an argument or trying to be mean...but didn’t the OJ trial give you a little clue?
Or Rodney King, maybe??
“Dude, Rosetta Stone doesn’t understand her”
Now that’s funny!
Worshipping of a halfwit! What’s happened to my country? Or is it my country any more, or hers, as someone suggested on this forum last night?!
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