OMG! She swallowed a cracker and he's hanging on by a finger trying to fight his way back out!!!
Posted on 06/28/2013 8:23:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I must admit, I’m kinda feeling Rachel Jeantel.
While watching the proceedings in the George Zimmerman trial in the death of Trayvon Martin, I have found the two days of testimony by the last person to speak with the 17-year-old student to be nothing short of riveting.
Let’s be honest. Jeantel is not your average witness. She is a 19-year-old Miami resident who is due to complete high school next year. Her speech mannerisms are utterly urban, about as far from the queen’s English as one could imagine. And her disposition on the stand ranged from annoyance to sheer antagonism.
Yet, what was incredibly fascinating about watching her on the stand was her clear determination to be herself and to stand firm in presenting her account of the events on the night Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman in February of last year.
She was peppered with questions by Zimmerman’s lawyers, who were determined to portray her as a witness with varying accounts and to cast her as being less than credible. But no matter what was thrown at her, she showed a determination to, well, stand her ground.
Jeantel is, of course, a star witness for the prosecution. She testified about the cell phone conversation she had with her close friend Trayvon Martin as he walked from a 7-11 convenience store to the home of his father’s fiancée in a gated apartment complex in Sanford, Florida, one evening. She talked about how her teenaged friend, Trayvon, had talked about his consuming interest in getting to the house and watching the NBA All-Star game.
She maintained that Trayvon was annoyed by the fact that he was being followed by a “creepy-a-- cracker,” a term he apparently used for Zimmerman and one that was apparently the source of captivation and undue focus by the defense attorneys. She told, in heartbreaking detail, how she heard Trayvon ask Zimmerman why he was following him. She told of the last thing she heard her teenage friend say on the phone, “Get off. Get off.”
Throughout her time on the stand, the lawyers for Zimmerman sought to find ways to puncture her credibility, often in condescending and pejorative ways. In fact, her time on the stand was so protracted because defense attorney Don West constantly asked her to repeat herself, to talk slowly, as if he were seeking to understand the language of an alien from another planet.
The daughter of Haitian and Dominican immigrants, Jeantel’s first language was Creole. She later picked up English and has clearly become conversant in the language of urban Miami. But West continued to speak to her as if she were some outlandish extraterrestrial rather than a teenager. He asked her about the expressions used in “your culture,” as though teenagers of all races don’t have their own linguistic idiosyncrasies.
Through it all, Jeantel would not be moved or dissuaded. She made it abundantly plain that she was not impressed with the authority of this lawyer and showed she could volley with the best of them. “What are you talking about?” she asked West at one point. “What are you saying?”
Jeantel is a teenager who has been thrust into an extraordinary situation. She is a star witness in one of the most highly watched trials in modern times, testifying about a phone call with a friend who was killed shortly after their telephone conversation. She admitted to feeling guilty about being Trayvon’s last conversational partner and not knowing how deadly that moment was for him. She never hid who she was or how she felt. Clearly she was reluctant and displeased about being there.
She has already been a highly talked about figure in the world of the Internet, with some finding her appalling and others applauding her (I suspect that how one views her has a great deal to do with one's familiarity with African-American teenagers). Her feelings are readily understandable and it's refreshing to see her resolve to state her perspective, even if it means refusing to kowtow to lawyers questioning her.
She is impressive to me because she never swayed from presenting Trayvon Martin as a young man who was thinking of nothing more sinister than the jump shots he hoped to see on television later that night. It remains to be seen what the jury will do with that information. But for her part, she presented it in a way that was consistent and that did justice to her friend.
OMG! She swallowed a cracker and he's hanging on by a finger trying to fight his way back out!!!
They irony is that they are supporting the white (liberal) power structure to railroad a Hispanic. And they're too stupid to know what that power structure will do to them when they are no longer useful. Cf. Useful Idiots.
Some witness, we don’t even know if she was sober at the time of the call.
Yeah, I recognize that the so-called Black muzzies exist. They have no real understanding of Sharia.
[[Her speech mannerisms are utterly urban, about as far from the queen’s English as one could imagine. And her disposition on the stand ranged from annoyance to sheer antagonism....]]
All of which woudl have had a white witness held in contempt of court- but because she is black- she can walk all over anyoen she likes and noone does a damn thing about it
WHAT?
Shhhh... that’s a big secret, confidential, top secret, classified, undisclosed, unknown, private, under wraps, hush-hush, sub rosa.
Tray shoulda been at her place doin’ her.
Ya know, I usually spot borderline personality disorder due to experience with people who have it. I have not seen video of her testimony, just transcripts, so maybe that is why I missed it. IOW I think you are right.
[[Standing her ground? OK,fair enough.But I wonder...can she even spell the word “ground” or use it in a sentence? ]]
Sure she can- infact I beleive hte following was one of her tweets: Court growned to a halt when queen attitude took da stand mofo biotchis- git me some drank Ima powerul thirsty
The above was not actually her tweet- but very similiar to hers-glen beck has a whole slew of her dleted twitter accouint tweets-
I’m “swift” enough, I was just commenting on her inability to articulate her ideas and the need for both the Defense and Prosecution lawyers to dumb down their questions so she could understand and respond to the satisfaction of the jury.
You need to be swift enough to identify that I was not questioning her truthfulness, just her inability to articulate because of the public education she was subjected to.
That surely cannot come as a surprise to you.
Everybody I worked with was competent.
The real problem isn't that she's stupid (she is) that she's uneducated (she is) English isn't her first language (it isn't) or that she's black (so what?)
The problem is that she's a liar.
‘Snitches get stitches.’ She was prepped, but they didn’t have much to work with. Welcome to FR.
Remember the "Epic Beard Man" video?
I taught undergrads for years. And I will tell you that even in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when I was just starting, I had students who could not put a grammatical sentence together to save their lives. It surely cannot have improved.
LOLOLOL
Hunter... Hare... Field
The Princess would have faced a world of trouble in Nazi Germany..
Make a sentence using the following words—Hunter/hare/field.. Falling to do so, a cause for sterilization...
Any bets on her adding to the gene pool?
America’s gene pool clearly needs more Chlorine...
Going virtual Galt feels good though.
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