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Yes, Rachel Jeantel Did Think It Was ‘Racist’ When Rush Limbaugh Said ‘N*gga’
Mediaite.com ^ | 11:34 am, July 17th, 2013 | by Matt Wilstein

Posted on 07/17/2013 5:12:46 PM PDT by drewh

Trayvon Martin‘s friend and witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial Rachel Jeantel got an opportunity to respond directly to Rush Limbaugh during an extended interview with Marc Lamont Hill Live Wednesday morning. Despite Limbaugh’s insistence that he now his Jeantel’s permission to say “nigga” with an “a,” Jeantel said the conservative radio host’s comments did “feel racist” to her.

In her first major interview since the Zimmerman trial ended, Jeantel explained to Piers Morgan Monday night the difference between “nigger” with an “-er,” which she said is a “racist” word and “nigga” with an “a,” which she said in her generation means just means any “male.” Tuesday, Limbaugh used Jeantel’s explanation as an excuse to use the “non-racist” version of the word on his radio show, saying, “I think can [say it] now, isn’t that the point? Because it’s not racist.”

HuffPost Live’s Hill played the Limbaugh clip for Jeantel and asked her to respond. When he first asked her if she knew who Limbaugh is, Jeantel replied, “No, who’s that?” After listening to the clip, she said, “When you say it out loud in person in front of people, that’s disrespectful,” she said, adding, “It is racist for an adult.”

Hill attempted to get some clarification from Jeantel, asking, “Does it matter whether the adult is black or white?”

“Yes!” Jeantel replied, with little hesitation.

“When you heard Rush Limbaugh say it just then, did it feel racist to you?” Hill asked.

“Well, yes,” Jeantel said. “But I can’t judge him.”

“It felt racist to me too,” Hill responded.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: jeantel; limbaugh; racheljeantel; rush; trayvonmartin
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To: drewh

Blacks can make up their own language and words, to cover for their lack of English skills. If English was made the official language of the USA, half or more of the black population would be using a “foreign language”.....


41 posted on 07/17/2013 6:18:10 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: drewh

Did she hear the edited or unedited version?


42 posted on 07/17/2013 6:18:59 PM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: drewh

Well, her ‘CRACKA’ remark “FEELS” racist to me.

Justice Department?

Bueller?

Bueller?...


43 posted on 07/17/2013 6:19:54 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: drewh

Rachel Showantell is now our go-to fount of racial wisdom. I think that MSM is not very subtly describing black intelligence as minimal. ANd the blacks have to go along with it and pretend they are not being described as genetically morons to keep their place aunder the table.


44 posted on 07/17/2013 6:22:53 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: drewh

She can’t make out cursive but she appreciates the fine distinctions between niggas and niggers (and, presumably, the niggardly). She might actually have intelligence but the direction in which she’s using it is, well, retarded.


45 posted on 07/17/2013 6:23:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: ansel12
Makes me think of Minstrel Shows, where white people would dress up in blackface and mock the "stupidity" of black people.

They are no longer around (thankfully) because they are really offensive.

Ms. Jeantel is like a living, breathing 2013 minstrel show, and black people are APPLAUDING her.

You're right, if this were a white person saying stupid crap like this, I would SWEAR it was a put on.

46 posted on 07/17/2013 6:27:14 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: drewh

This girl is the poster child for the United Negro College Fund.


47 posted on 07/17/2013 6:28:47 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: clintonh8r

I agree . . .


48 posted on 07/17/2013 6:29:17 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: manc
radical left try to make her come across as an educated person

The radical left is telling the lack population what the radical left really thinks of them when they make that woman the Black Spokesman.

49 posted on 07/17/2013 6:33:40 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Salamander

MASH was on TV the other night.

Probably COZI. It was censored, language and some blurring.

‘Spearchucker’ was edited out!!!

I am too dense to figure that out I guess.


50 posted on 07/17/2013 6:45:19 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: drewh

If a man can demand to be treated as if he’s a woman, I can state that I’m a 16 y.o. black girl. Who is Jeantel to say I’m not?


51 posted on 07/17/2013 6:48:02 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: GeorgeTex

Yep.


52 posted on 07/17/2013 6:49:32 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: drewh

Her book of rules changes daily and she is an ageist...!!!


53 posted on 07/17/2013 6:51:31 PM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted......)
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To: Scrambler Bob

How stupid of them.

His nickname came from his prowess as a javelin thrower in college.

The *only* reason he disappeared from the show was the writers found out there were no black doctors in Korea.

The censors are racist.


54 posted on 07/17/2013 6:51:56 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: drewh

What if a person says nigga in cursive?


55 posted on 07/17/2013 6:52:43 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: drewh

What is it? “Identify it, ridicule it, Isolate it?”

She is definitely a candidate for the procedure. I pray to God she keeps talking and being hypocritical - changing what she says from one day to the next - and publicly.

‘Not a credible witness’ only scratches the surface.


56 posted on 07/17/2013 6:53:52 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: drewh

Paula should have said in her deposition that she was saying n***a with the a at the end.


57 posted on 07/17/2013 7:08:17 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: drewh

“It is racist for an adult.”

##########

She’s 19. She’s an adult and she says cracka and nigga and nigger. No more kid-glove treatment for racists and double speak standards. You are both ignorant.


58 posted on 07/17/2013 7:33:05 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: drewh

It was ridicule pure and simple. Rush ridiculed the liberal race baters and they think THAT is racism.

Liberals is so dumb!!


59 posted on 07/17/2013 7:36:11 PM PDT by o2bfree (Lindsey Graham is left of South Carolina.)
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To: drewh

Let’s see if I got this right: It’s not racist if it ends in an “a” instead of an “er”, unless it’s said by somebody who’s not black (although in her original formulation that really didn’t seem to matter), or unless it’s said by somebody who’s an adult (’that be old school - we be new school’, so I guess it’s really the school that matters), or unless the person who says it “doesn’t make you feel right”.

That really helps a lot, except that Lamont forgot to ask her if it matters what the phase of the moon is when one uses the word.


60 posted on 07/17/2013 7:40:21 PM PDT by Stosh
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