For Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, a ‘village’ of mentors trying to keep her on track

Washington Post ^ | June 4, 2014 | Krissah Thompson and Lonnae O’Neal Parker

[anoldafvet]

BARF!!!

[apillar]

Well you know the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a hippo...”

[Ouchthatonehurt]

That’s jus re ta ed sir

[PistolPaknMama]

a flash of the fire she showed on the witness stand

I must have missed that part of the trial.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LMAO!

[logic101.net]

If a moron like that can graduate, how much is a diploma really worth?

[Gaffer]

Hippos like candy bars. I seen it on the second “Librarian” movie.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Can she read cursive now?

Is anyone else troubled about her appearance at the trial? The letter she was asked to read, in cursive, was supposedly a letter she herself had written. Yet, when asked to read it aloud, she had to admit she couldn’t read cursive.

My question is, why wasn’t this an issue in the trial? She can’t read a letter she supposedly wrote?

[Second Amendment First]

She was interviewed on the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show.”

Joyner offered to pay for Jeantel’s college tuition at a historically black college of her choosing.

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Jeantel accepted Joyner’s offer, but she had missed nearly a full year of high school because of the investigation and trial, and there had already been gaps in her education. Vereen says an assessment showed Jeantel was reading and doing mathematics on a fourth-grade level.

[jiggyboy]

That graduation cap looks like a Dixie cup on a bowling ball.

[Dilbert San Diego]

We are all old school, according to her. She and her generation are with it. The rest of us are old school, we’re not with it.

And Trayvon just wanted to do a “whup ass” on Zimmerman. Zimmerman should be familiar enough with ghetto culture to know that Trayvon just wanted to rough him up a bit, to show him who is boss.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL.

The case against Zimmerman effectively disappeared once this creature was on the stand and she was asked to review a signed statement that she had allegedly written describing the events of the night Martin died ... and she was forced to admit that she couldn't read cursive writing.

[Jane Long]

LOLOL!!

[RightGeek]

Rachel Jentel

[Gaffer]

Fat chance of it costing him anything. An HBCU education, provided you are historically black, costs nothing.

[oh8eleven]

projected her full-figured image, her words, her urban African American dialect into the national consciousness
To which the nation responded,"WTF did she say?"

[Alberta's Child]

Of course that was an issue in the trial. That’s probably one of the biggest reasons why the jury acquitted Zimmerman.

[dead]

Listen!

Can you hear it?

That's the sound of wet grass.

[RightGeek]

She’s graduating from High School at age 20?