Posted on 07/23/2013 5:55:57 PM PDT by drewh
One of the more reluctant media figures to emerge from the George Zimmerman trial was 19 year-old Rachel Jeantel, the last person to speak to unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, aside from the man who killed him.
Her contentious exchanges with defense attorney Don West sparked conversations about cultural differences, and the way many in the media reacted to them.
Jeantels unpleasant experience in the courtroom hasnt scarred her too deeply, however, as she told radio host Ricky Smiley, last week, that she aspires to become an attorney.
Jeantels time on the witness stand was a focal point of the trial, and was characterized by an intensely antagonistic repartee with defense attorney Don West, who seemed to be trying to provoke Jeantel into reacting negatively, and to present her as a sullen proxy for absent victim Trayvon Martin.
Since the trial, she has made several media appearances, and provided insight into the dynamic between her and West.
That dynamic apparently hasnt soured Jeantel on Wests profession, though. In an interview with Ricky Smiley last week, Jeantel said she hopes to go to college, with a little help from Smiley and radio superstar Tom Joyner:
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White guilt and “empathy” will take this ghetto savage to the highest places. You can see examples of those things right here.
Or a neurosurgeon.
She hasn’t decided yet.
Meanwhile, people in hell want icewater
Well so far over $150,000 dollars have been spent on her to have a “chance”. And she did not bother to expend the effort to learn to read. That $150,000 dollars was taken from hard working people by school taxes who received nothing in return.
A chance by American standards is the freedom to build your own life, not steal from others in the name of equality. That is Marxism.
She is not equal, that is painfully apparent. It is not a lack of brains, it is the lack of desire to apply herself to use those brains.
Jesus also said to judge righteous judgment. The OT says a wise man sees trouble down the road and gets off but the fool blunders on to his destruction.
Throwing money at her to use for skoolin is foolish, take a good look at what she has done with it so far. We have to pay her school bills, they are running about 17,000 bucks a year. Now after 10 years of our investment in this girl, what does she have to show for it?
This is like raising taxes for Obama, his spending record for accomplishment ration is negative!
What was happening on this thread last night was a savage ridicule of an individual who simply expressed her desire to become a lawyer. We don't really know what she capable of. Let's at least give her the benefit of that and let's not become that which we despise.
Sometimes in solving a single problem, answers to others are found. God has his ways... We may not see it at the time, but in the end it becomes apparent that it was his plan all along.
As an example, the lung transplant that Sarah received has brought much attention to issue. I'm reading all sorts of news of developments and new research efforts in those fields, like growing human livers in animals, 3D printing of organs and etc.
Let us do what can be done and trust in God to help with the rest. Let's not ridicule someone who shares a dream, no matter how difficult it may be to attain.
It isn't who we are. Is it who we've become?
DC. . .there used to be, and maybe still are, “traditionally black” law schools in DC that graduate people of her caliber.
Met a graduate from one of those schools. . .and yes, dumb as a box of hammers, ugly, foul mouthed and, shocked I am, a State Department foreign service officer en-route to South Africa.
Obamaphone dealer?
Guess I am just tired of all the Low lifes demanding that their wants are dreams I need to fulfill. I had a dream of owning some land and building a house, but the economic down turn makes it impossible for me to have my dream, because I am working hard to just cover my needs. Why, because I am forced to cover their wants and dreams.
I have no problem with her having dreams, and wish well on her demonstrating that she really means it by working for it. But if she has not bothered to even try to learn to read, its silly to think that she will ever work for a living, preferring to steal it from others using the government and liberal agenda as the gun.
They can have all the dreams they can fufill, on their own dime. And if I see people in my life living righteously that need a hand I do help them. But government never gets close enough to discern the difference.
Charity belongs in churches and our hearts, not in government and taxes.
Exactly
Where there is a will, there usually can be found a way; best wishes in your pursuit of your own little piece of heaven on earth.
the sad fact is:
after barley graduating highschool,
after barely graduating college with a general studies degree,
after some slock house law diploma mill hands her a diploma,
after some bar with a quota passage requirement gives her a law licence,
She will be appointed judge due to a quota rather than content of character.
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“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
It seems that the black “leaders” do overshoot the mark for their young black followers. They want all young blacks to be sports stars, rap stars, lawyers, ministers, movie stars, the Huxtables etc. Why not set the bar a little lower? Why not emphasize real and doable job careers such as auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians and any other trade that can be learned in the trade schools? I think the “leaders” are filling the heads of young black people with a lot of unrealistic ambitions when they could be developing real skills that would be actually needed in their community and would go a long way toward building a black middle class.
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