Posted on 07/16/2013 9:10:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Radio personality Tom Joyner has offered Rachel Jeantel, the friend of Trayvon Martin who spoke to him shortly before he died, a full scholarship to any Historically Black College or University she chooses. The website Joyner founded, BlackAmericaWeb.com, confirmed the news. Jeantel spoke to Joyner on his radio show Tuesday morning.
He said to her: "If you want to graduate from high school, and go to an HBCU, even if it’s not in Florida but especially Florida,like Florida Memorial, Edward Waters or FAMU, if you want to do that, I want to help you do that. I will help you get tutors to get you out of high school, tutors to help you pass the SAT and I will give you a full ride scholarship to any HBCU you’d like."
Joyner said he was moved by Jeantel's testimony. The funding for the scholarship will come from the Tom Joyner Foundation.
Jeantel reluctantly took the stand to testify for the prosecution in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. She told the courtroom that she heard Martin say "get off, get off" before the call cut out and Zimmerman shot him. During her testimony, which spanned two days, she was mocked online by people insulting her dress, mannerisms, and intelligence.
Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday.
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Nice PR gesture, but I’m betting he made it believing that there’s no way she would meet the admissions requirements, and therefore he won’t ever have to pay her a cent.
If he were genuine he’d be offering her immediate accademic assistance in the form of tutors and a private school education.
It be b’cuz she be such a grate mind...
She sounds perfect for FSU.
Ducking for cover.
Sounds like a congressional candidate to me. I bet she'd win, too.
dats old school
Grambling State University (about 5 miles down Interstate 20 from where I sit) would snap her up in a New York minute.
some how after seeing her talk and he demeanor then I would say she would not last a year in college and does she not have to take the SAT
“Here’s the college application form, Rachel - just put your “x” on that line there and I’ll date it for you.”
“Why a black college?”
Because they’re easier.
Yes, this is the kind of person that gets a government job where they can make the lives of productive people as hellish as they want to.
meet admission standards, have you ever seen black schools, they’re awful and to think they actually have so called nurses coming out of them too?
Oh the sometimes not so transparent soft bigotry of lowered expectations. So let me get his right, the founder of this black block, newsletter, paper, whatever will give Ms CA-Cr@cker (that word is racist to ME!) a scholarship to any HBCU or MI....ain't that ducky. Why is dat? Because she's to stupid to succeed in a college that doesn't pass every black student it admits?
C'mon now dude! Spring for her a first rate wasted education. Go Harvard! Yeah....being black pretty much gives her a pass on all that, too, but she'd damned well be able to read a teleprompter.
I very sincerely hope that she gets some kind of education, because the public schools of Florida have obviously failed her.
I’d be very surprised if she took him up on his offer.
I’m surprised that Obama hasn’t offered her a cabinet position or a free ride to one of the military academies.
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