Posted on 07/15/2013 7:29:28 PM PDT by marthemaria
bombshell interview with an anonymous Zimmerman trial juror tonight with an exclusive chat with the witness everyone has been waiting to hear from since the verdict came down: Trayvon Martin‘s friend Rachel Jeantel.
Jeantel, who created a media firestorm with her highly-polarizing testimony towards the beginning of the trial, appeared on Piers Morgan Live alongside her attorney. She described her reaction to Zimmerman’s acquittal as “disappointed, upset and angry” and called the jury’s assessment of what happened “just B.S.”
Asked about what Trayvon Martin was like as a friend, Jeantel described him as a “calm, chill, loving person” and said she never saw him get “aggressive” or “lose his temper.” She said that the defense’s attempts to portray Martin as a “thug” were unfounded and defended his relatively mild drug use. “Weed don’t make him go crazy,” she said, “it just makes him go hungry.”
Jeantel also responded to the massive mockery she received in social media for the way she speaks, explaining that she was born with an under-bite that has made it difficult for her to speak clearly. When Morgan asked if she’d been bullied for her condition, she simply responded, “Look at me,” to laughter from the studio audience.
Morgan attempted to get Jeantel to offer her opinion of defense attorney Don West, who many claimed was condescending towards her when she was on the stand. Jeantel shook her head, declining to say anything bad about the man given her “Christian” upbringing.
In the second part of his interview with Jeantel, Morgan turned to the “creepy-ass cracker” comment she made and the major impact it had on the tenor of the case. She explained that the term is actually spelled “cracka” and defined it as “people who are acting like they’re police.” She said that if Zimmerman had calmly approached Martin and introduced himself, her friend would have politely said what he was doing there and nothing more would have happened.
Unlike the juror, Jeantel did think Zimmerman was racially motivated. “It was racial,” she said. “Let’s be honest, racial. If Trayvon was white and he had a hoodie on, would that happen?” She said she “had a feeling it was going to be not guilty” not because of the racial makeup of the jury, but because of the way the testimony went.
Jeantel insisted that Martin was “creeped out” and believed Zimmerman was following him, even worrying that he might be a “rapist.” She asked, “For every boy or every man who’s not that kind of way, seeing a grown man following them, would they be creeped out?”
So THAT's why he needed the Skittles and drank the kool-aid!
Yeah, but what about the Purple Drank he had two of the three ingredients to make?
With his innocent little skittles and ice tea.
That’s like saying “He was just walking home with his cough medicine. His 17 bottles of it to his funny smelling house!”
I’m convinced that on one point Jeantel is wrong, and that is that GZ would have done the same thing if it had been a white boy wearing a hoodie, and walking about like he was casing houses. She is also lying about what cracker or cracka’ means. Had Trayvon thought GZ was a cop, he would have hurried home. On the other point, that Trayvon might have thought GZ was queer and cruising, she might be right, but that doesn’t excuse what he did.
I appreciate you watching the interview, so some of us don’t have to.
Jeeez!! Talk about the Felix and Oscar Show !
But she will graduate and is still in school and trying.I know a few kids which does not relate to Dee Dee ,they are in school cause druggy mommy will lose support.A couple we will helping tried tried suicide.
Good Lord,is that an actual quote?
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Probably good enough to get into Columbia and then Harvard Law...
If butchering English were a crime, Jeantel would be charged with a first degree felony.
Not to change the subject, but I was watching a Show about the history of the Concorde Passenger Jet.
They interviewed some Concorde Frequent Fliers, Actors, Business People and yes, Poets. Lo and behold there is Maya Angelo’s smiling face, talking about how special it is to be one of the privileged people flying to and fro at twice the speed of sound.
Just another poor beaten down Black Woman like Oprah. What a phony baloney sack of excrement.
Now, back to the subject at hand.
She’ll have a reality show within 6 months. Honey Boo Boo look out.
Is that the same Savage that thought Zimmerman was guilty of Murder, or did he have some sort of epifphamy?
Sing it, Jeantel. You have a lot of illuminating things to say. Keep talking Jeantel.
I think that's what she's saying. That Martin thought Zimmerman was a gay stalker, so Martin attacked him. Wonder how that will play with the gays. Either way, Martin initiated the physical confrontation and paid the price.
In her School, Juniors are 19, not 16 like in my Old School Days.
Must be a combination of that successful Head Start Program, daily doses of Sesame Street and Clinton’s wonderful Midnight Basketball.
She used the N word a lot — and without hesitation.
Given what passes for poetry from Maya, this remark is not in the least bit sarcastic.
Or Congressman. She might even turn up at the next State Of the Union she is the right color.
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