Posted on 07/01/2013 2:24:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Defense attorney Don West questions Rachel Jeantel during George Zimmerman's trial in Sanford, Fla., June 27, 2013.
Trayvon Martin’s trial might be intriguing, fascinating cultural theater to some. To me, it is more akin to a cultural trauma: a continual reminder of how unsafe all those young black men that I love actually are as they move through the world — and how tenuous and torturous it would be to seek justice on their behalf. Troubled, though, by the negative characterizations of Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, after her first day of testimony, I tuned in yesterday in a show of sofa-based, sister-girl solidarity.
Immediately, I heard newscasters referring to her prior testimony, which I had watched on video, as combative and aggressive. And I felt my pressure start to rise.
These kinds of terms – combat, aggression, anger – stalk black women, especially black women who are dark-skinned and plus-sized like Rachel, at every turn seeking to discredit the validity of our experiences and render invisible our traumas. By painting Rachel Jeantel as the aggressor, as the one prone to telling lies and spreading untruths, it became easy for the white male defense attorney to treat this 19-year-old, working-class black girl, a witness to the murder of her friend, as hostile, as a threat, as the one who needed to be regulated and contained and put in her place.
I know these are just classic legal maneuvers of a good defense. Yet these maneuvers also provide an eerily perfect diagram of the cultural grammar that determines how black folks move through the world, always already cast as the aggressors, always necessarily on the defensive, all too often victimized, all too rarely vindicated.
No one knows this better than Trayvon Martin.....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
and her symbiotic connection to a fat black girl
they need an ASSISTANT professor to teach nonsense?
Usually, you need a full professor to spew this kind of tripe.
Quite the contrary, I saw the def. atty trying desperately to get answers from her in as gentle a manner as he could, knowing he was dealing with an individual with a very low IQ......
assistant, meaning (as yet) untenured
Jokes on us, said person is probably tenured, pulling close to or over 100 large, have a matching TIAA CREF 403b, a Defined Contribution Pension Plan on top of the 403b, Gold Plated Health Care and Sabbaticals to boot.
Why study something of substance like Nursing, Accounting, Fracking ( yes their are 2 year degrees to get you in that arena ). or Engineeing when a degree in "studies" can get you all the bennies?
Notice how the author glosses right over the fact that she testified that Martin uttered racial slurs against Zimmerman to her on the phone, she lied about it in sworn depositions and when confronted with that she was either too stupid to realize that the term “cracker” was racist or lied about it.
Unfortunately for “Dee Dee”, she grew up in the Democrat utopia of the Inner City, where families are next to non-existent, schools are scandalously poor (she can’t read cursive?), morals are absent, life is cheap and you rely upon government for your substinance.
I sincerely hope that when the inevitable collapse of the higher education bubble occurs that unserious areas of study such as “Black Studies” are the first to go down the toilet. They are nothing but a perpetuation of racial grievance..
This is how you become a full professor; publish or perish!
Not this time. It’s just a gay Salon author that is probably defending her for attention and the fact she oes resemble a transvestite...
Can the PC crap, she’s stupid, ugly, black, and obese!
Working? Her?
This is p a p e r. Can you say...Paper?
What I just love is how the leftist can’t wait to throw a “creepy ass cracker” in jail for 2nd degree murder based on hear say evidence heard over an Obamaphone from a racist.
F’n amazing.
My exact thought. Where does she work, I wonder.
These kinds of terms – combat, aggression, anger – stalk black women, especially black women who are dark-skinned and plus-sized like Rachel, at every turn seeking to discredit the validity of our experiences and render invisible our traumas..."
Sounds like the author has a hair-trigger defensiveness stalking her as well...
To be fair, cursive *is* difficult to read (and it's ugly). I avoid it whenever I can.
I'll accept the other criticisms. To me, this girl is a microcosm of everything that is wrong in black poverty plantation society. For all I know, she grew up believing that living as a welfare queen is her right--whites owe it to her because of slavery.
I would suggest she expend a little more energy feeling angst about an innocent man being stalked by unjust, trumped up charges being bolstered (or not) by an oversized black woman with attitude problems, instead of feeling anger that people are pointing out that she is an oversized black woman with attitude problems lying under oath for racist motives.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.