Posted on 06/28/2013 11:24:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The George Zimmerman murder trial has captured the nation's attention since it began. When Rachel Jeantel, the last person to speak with Trayvon Martin (aside from Zimmerman), took the stand, it ignited a dialogue on race, class and the cultural shaming of our own.
Many people have been very critical of the way Jeantel speaks -- her subject-verb agreement, her Southern accent, her tendency to say "axe" instead of "ask." Speech is a cultural marker often used to highlight one's otherness. The problem with "improper speech" is not that people who speak in such tongues cannot be understood. It's that they speak in a way that makes others uncomfortable; that it forces people to acknowledge and deal with an otherness that they may otherwise prefer to step around. It is an otherness that makes whites uncomfortable and, apparently, shames blacks to the point of publicly attacking Jeantel for who she is.
In discussing Jeantel's testimony, news_anchors made sure to point out that she wasn't using "the queen's English," harped on the defense's inability to understand her and questioned whether she understood her importance to the trial. On Twitter, black folks said much of the same but also called her fat, ridiculed her complexion and made memes mocking her.
Writer Sherri Williams of the website Backbone compiled a Storify of some of the tweets and memes and further noted: "The black_respectability_police pondered if her father is in her life. They said if George Zimmerman is acquitted it would be her fault because of her sassy attitude. Black folks said girls like Jeantel are the type to keep away from their children."
The important context of what Jeantel has been forced to endure both on the stand and on the night that she last talked to Trayvon Martin has been cast aside.....
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Total Information Awareness, or whatever we’re calling the government’s gathering of much more information on every citizen than the KGB and STASI ever dreamed about having on theirs.
Spending $12000/year onlt to produce this miseducated rude & ignorant Fat Cow should wake up all the idiot DWLs, “Disingenuous White Leftist/Liars/LibDims”.
I think most Americans have simply not looked at the effect of schooling in metropolitan or urban areas. Probably half the population coming out of these schools...are this way. I would not call is ignorance....it’s just that teachers can only carry the class a certain distance....you graduate with a 4th grade reading ability, and probably a sixth-grade speaking ability. If you can add and subtract...that’s it.
For jobs, the best you can hope for is a clerk at a grocery, or a beauty-shop job.
She’s just one of probably five million Americans that is fairly limited by age 18. I don’t think it’s her fault....we made the system like it is...and allowing substandard teachers to walk in and stay for thirty years.
She’s a perfect example of what Liberalism has brought. She’s beyond reproach, like Trayvon. The dumbed down beligerent black underclass is a wholly owned product of Liberalism. They own it 100%. And they, the Liberals, have made it impossible to improve the education of young blacks because to disagree with their unions or with Liberalism is racism. To think that she’s not just as smart, educated, and intelligent as the next person is racism, in the Liberal view. And if Trayvon attacked Zimmerman for being a creepy Cracker and was beating him to death, that’s okay. Trayvon was a black man who would have resembled the President’s son, had he had one. Therefore, we know all that we need to know about the case, in the view of Liberalism. Zimmerman, a heretofore unknown tribesman of the white Hispanic grouping, is to be lynched to save the chauvinism of Liberalism and its preposterous lies.
Did.she.tell.the.unvarnished.truth?
Great quote
An interesting concept, but one I believe gives a little too much credit for the prosecution.
If there were such deviousness on the part of the powers- that-be/control the prosecution, they would lay out a pitiful prosecution of Zimmerman and let him be acquitted. This almost certainly would fuel the fires of racism to the point of outright urban rioting. Now, THAT, is fueling the fires.
My take is the DA has to prosecute the case because the victim is black, period. DOJ expects it. Holder expects it. His black constituents expect it.
Spending $12000/year onlt to produce this miseducated rude & ignorant
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And that is only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ when you consider all the other ‘monies’ thrown at ‘the poverty problem’.
I guess she didn’t say they ‘conversated’ or she used to ‘borrow him things’...that is Ebonics???
May also be the ‘master plan’, unionize and lock in your so called ‘teachers’, have as many administrators as ‘teachers’, have a society that doesn’t want to learn and keep pumping money into it, don’t worry about ABC’s and math and spelling, worry that a child (supposedly) eats a pop tart into the shape of a gun??, worry about children pointing fingers at each other, indoctrinate them in ways a parent never would...
Lesson learned, as long as a kid in 7th grade knows how to put a rubber on a cucumber or banana, can hug and kiss members of his own sex with ease don’t worry that he/she can’t spell CAT if you give them the K and A....
Our ‘society’ has fallen into an everything must rhyme in order to be understood, get arrested for wearing an NRA shirt but okay to put a flag above the American Flag, treat the American Flag like a ‘rag’ and call it just a piece of cloth, honor the ‘Rainbow Flag’, desecrate the ‘Stars and Bars’ and as the talk host Brian Wilson is want to say
`We continue to slide down the razorblade of life`. (sorry Brian, not quite a quote BUT the gist is there).
The girl in question showed herself to be an illiterate liar with the street smarts (or any other smarts) of a toad.
She is too thick to understand the interconnections of here concocted story and doesn’t seem to grasp when she has been caught in her lie.
I’ve seen this many times before. A person of low intelligence and low character gets caught in a lie. Their reaction is to ignore reality and retreat to, “Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”
Every person who jumps to this witnesses defense, does so because they are a racist, anti-freedom, or both.
Zimmerman looks completely Hispanic to me (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) How anyone could describe him as white-skinned is beyond me.
The teachers are not the problem. They could have sterling teachers (and some are) and still have no chance of learning anything. It is more simply that they have no respect for authority (other than arbitrary orders from their disfunctional parents) and no ability to learn. This is instilled in them as children, and once in school they literally pay no attention to any of the teacher, talk amongst themselves and distract others.
It is a rare sight in an inner city school to see a child actually listening to a teacher. And that child will probably end up on the losing end of a few fights.
I thought I read that she was from a Haitian family which spoke Creole. South Florida is full of Haitians, many of whom are illegal aliens.
I have only heard criticism of the way she lies and criticism of how the prosecution could put such a liar on the stand.
It truly is amazing, isn't it? I grew up in the South and I and the folks around me often commented on the subject you raise. It wasn't complimentary, either.
Angry, illiterate, immoral, uneducated, liar, racist, hate filled and unable to comprehend what truth is... much less the truth itself... THAT is what America has seen and black America should wake-up and change this rotten culture that infects everything like a cancer. That woman lives in Florida, USA... she was educated in the most expensive education system in the world... and she represents the result of all of that federal spending. She deserved better and it was the US government and the dim enslavement party that failed her.
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I can’t wait for the defense to call her back and have a creole and Spanish translator sitting next to the witness booth (she testified she was tri-lingual)
This leads right up to the present occupant of the White House. There has never been a more racially divisive president in the history of our republic.
And how would that help their case? (Even if race riots are going on outside the courtroom, that should not affect what is going on inside the courtroom.)
The only people the prosecution should be concerned with influencing are the six women who sit on the jury. They have to examine Ms. Jeantel's testimony on its own merits, not on whether someone outside the courtroom might be upset.
They probably tried to coach her but gave up in frustration. She is an ignorant slob and no amount of training can hide that fact.
Jeantell made it quite obvious what happened, SIR. The instant Trayvon saw GZ, he interjected race into the situation and got an attitude, (creepy ass cracker, nigga). He could have said hey, been polite, explaining why he was in the neighborhood, that he was visiting his dad. It would have been over. Instead, he took the ghetto route, confrontational, violent, arrogant, believing what he has been taught, “you don’t have to answer to no white man, cause they are out to get you.” His white-hating, racist parents have to look no further than to themselves as to why their son died.
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