Jonathan P. Hicks
Jonathan P. Hicks
Before this trial is over she will be eating those words along with her bananas and denying that she was on the phone at all with him.
Scenes such as those with Jeantel play out in American courtrooms every day. I had the misfortune to witness some of them when forced to try to weasel out of jury duty. There are people, I was told by a black co-juror candidate, who never ever leave the ghetto, except of course when arrested to forced to show up at a courthouse, and who are just like this lovely feral creature.
Racist black author standing up for a racist black teenager. Disgusting. But then again its from BET. Where is the White Entertainment Television author standing up for Zimmerman?
[[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
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...
More racist BULLSHIT!
I think I threw up a little reading this.
I wonder who this author voted for.
jeeeezzz....
If this clown was looking for some credibility.....please.
She’s more witless than witness.
Black Entertainment Television. Where’s the diversity? Where’s the Cracker Entertainment Television channel?
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.”
Which is a bald faced lie.
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.
She contrived in mumbling and hushed undiscernable tones to the point no one could hear, much less, understand her
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?”
So she is forgiven for being special and standing up to the bad ole defense attorney? You have to got to be joking! This a murder case with another man’s life on the line. I will say I was shocked the judge hadn’t at least reprimanded her, especially, for her over the top charge “That’s retarded sir”. Maybe the judge has special insight into her arrested development and thought better of it.
Still, are we to expect courtrooms to become places of mockery in the future, rather than the somber exercise of adjudication of facts affecting not only so many lives but, order in American society?
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.
You sir a bigot and a presumptuous ass discerning that which you do not know and can’t.
She was there to answer, as a star witness, questions of absolute importance. The court is not her special place to spar with whomever she wants and I am shocked wasn’t held in contempt at a minimum and astonished she won’t be held accountable for her many occasions of perjury.
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.
You ignore the fact that he found Zimmerman to be his shinny object and was distracted from his mission of seeing a game and decided a beat down would be a better use of his time, for which he paid the ultimate price.
No man, is allowed to visit upon another man violence and not expect that his arrogance of aggression will be met with equal or greater force to end his attack or save a life.
I look forward to your justifications of all kinds of butt hurt over the ages when the riots break out at the end of all this.
She’s an addle-brained simpleton. An overstuffed, racist, sack of grease who wouldn’t know the the truth if it bit her on her fat butt.
So, why didn't St. Trayvon do just that when he had the chance? That would have ended the whole affair.
But, no, like the thug he was, he had to escalate the situation.
She has been in free public education since kindergarten and all she has mastered are the skills qualifying her to live the rest of her life on welfare.
Acceptable? yes as long as you are black
Yepper - and they wonder why Blacks keep drifting over the bottom of the society barrel, mired in the sludge. They are so consumed with “boosting” their race and then turning around and using it as an excuse, that they keep pushing any upward movement back in to the sewers.
This is like mussolini complementing hitler for his own self worth.
LLS
***about as far from the queen’s English as one could imagine.****
Hard to believe that in AFRICA, the Queen’s English is often the “official language” and many black Africans speak it well.