WOW! This person is allowed into a voting booth. Scary thought! http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/ "They white. They old. They old school people. We new school people. This is my generation." Yeah, if there ever was a classic example of a low information voter, Rachel Jeantel is it! Absolutely clueless on all fronts! Sad, sad, sad. http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/
I like your spelling of her name ... it's like you were taught to spell by hooked-on-phonics .... LOL
Oops. I did misspell it didn't I. Oh wait, you meant that as a pot shot didn't you? As usual, you bring as much to the table as Ms. Jeantel. Got anything intelligent to add Ms. Jeantel?
A bit of a dupe thread. http://www.politicalforum.com/zimme...gan-trayvon-looking-homes.html#post1062873395 Although the one I linked was titled to a more specific part of the interview. The woman is a disaster. A caricature of all that is wrong about the black community, and of the thug mentality that pushed Trayvon to his own early demise.
Don't forget, a few years back, Bill Cosby got booed on stage for telling his fellow blacks to grow up and educate themselves.
Yes he did. I did not watch the entire Rachel interview, but it seemed that even Piers was a bit strained in trying to work with not so much her lack of intelligence, but more so her bias and lack of any redeeming character.
That's a shortsighted observation. In the end it all boils down to why the education she was entitled to receive went over the top of her head. And you can't blame parents (real or imaginary) for all of that. What should have been addressed years ago was the political correctness which prevented a child from being properly disciplined, both at school and at home. In any normal household the parent knows how to discipline their children. But once they are hold that they can do this but they can't do that, it's out of the window. And the same applies at school. I wasn't a bad pupil but when in secondary school, I was caned three times and I remember each to this day, because they hurt like hell. I don't even know why I received the first caning, I wasn't told and was too afraid to ask. Now, I realise what people here think about me and my posts because I have creaded that situation of my own volition. But I am not as stupid as I make out or as people believe me to be. The discipline I refer to above created my future. I don't think I turned out to badly and what I didn't learn at school I learned from reading and the media since. It was enough to get me my first job and to retain it until I moved on, on my own terms. Today, children don't even have that chance because a high number of them cannot read or write by the time it is necessary to gain employment. So, if the blame is to be put somewhere it's with the politicians who were more interested in getting themselves re-elected by bowing to political correctness than it was to the people who gave them the opportunity to serve in the first place and were horrendously let down as a result.
Rachel Jeantel is what happens when a not-too-bright child is raised within a predominantly lower-class black community.
You missed the part where she boasted at 19 her mom and dad were paying her bills. I bet that is one Dad that is pissed he has to pay child support to 19 and a half because she cant get out of 9th grade.
No, I don't think that is correct. It lies with the household environment. Obviously, she has no discipline, which means she probably has no real parenting at home. Mix in the fact it's a bad area, bad schools, and the culture surrounding a black, poor community, it is the typical hood rat mentality found here in America. - - - Updated - - - There ya go. They created a monster.
But if that's your view of it, and you are in a far better position to judge it from your standpoint, what would you suggest to remedy the situation?
Her, of course, and big government liberal policies like education, the war on poverty and of course black culture. NEXT!
She gets her (*)(*)(*)(*) together, just as many, many people from circumstances like her have done. Oh and maybe I can help you answer your own question: if liberal policies like education, the war on poverty and black culture are a problem, what do you think is the next step?
Back to basics. Tell the PC crowd that they have been listened to for the last 50 years and their total achievements in all western countries is a lowering of standards to such an extent that all they attempted was useless, and using a clip of Rachel Chantel's remarks as evidence. Had she been literate instead, the persona of Martin may well have been different, even if she may not have convinced the jury anyway.
RAchel Jeantel is a proven liar. Her testimony wasn't helpful for the prosecution because she wasn't a credible witness.
The people on the jury were older and came from a generation where words like cracka and (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) were racially explosive terms. Her generation uses those terms to describe someones behavior and not based on skin color. She made it clear that anyone, black, white or hispanic, might be referred to as a cracka or (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) depending on whether they were acting like a cracka or (*)(*)(*)(*)(*). I understood what she meant by those comments, I also understood everything she said on PM from a language standpoint. People who continue to claim they could not understand her on PM are IMO probably bigots and maybe racists. She was easily understood.
Really, that's a pretty convenient excuse for using racial slurs... I'm sure there is all sorts of evidence, in say pop culture, like the movies or television that backs those assertions, right?
Just watched it and is it just me but does she remind you a lot of Michelle Obama in a way? Might be her eyes
And let us not forget ! Rachel said that this change in language occurred around the year 2000 ! Language expert that she is, it must be true !!!!!! Or maybe people who believe Rachel J are fools and racists themselves ?
You're missing the point, again. To her and what she believes is her generation those aren't racial slurs.
