Mediaite:
Rachel Jeantel Explains The Difference Between ‘N*gga’ And ‘N*gger’ To Piers Morgan
In the third part of Piers Morgan‘s extensive, exclusive interview with Trayvon Martin‘s friend Rachel Jeantel about her testimony in the George Zimmerman trial, the host asked his guest if there was anything she wished she’d said on the stand. Jeantel answered with one word: “Nigga.”
Jeantel explained to Morgan that “the whole world say it’s a racist word” but the version of the word that she testified Martin had used in reference to Zimmerman, spelled “n-i-g-g-a” doesn’t mean what most people think it means. It doesn’t mean a “black male” as Morgan assumed, she said, but rather any kind of man, including “Chinese” for example. Morgan helpfully pointed out that that’s the version rappers use in their music.
“But nigger,” Jeantel said, stressing the “-er.,” is a “racist word.” She said “I’d advise you not to be by black people” when you say that word, Jeantel explained, “because they’re not going to have it like that.” And this is not just in her community as Morgan posited but in the entire “generation.”
{{Headdesk}}
The Crawdad Hole 
I’m as guilty as the next person of poking fun at Ms. Jeantal. But all jokes at her expense aside, how do we teach young people like her that it’s the older generation who are going or not going to hire her for a job? Back in the 70’s when I graduated from college, there were a lot of young men who refused to cut their hair. Until they couldn’t find anyone who would hire their ponytails. Unless she wants the height of her career to be mopping up, she needs to learn conforming to the old farts’ expectations of her is necessary. And it would appear she has at least thought about going to college and having a professional career. She lied on a social network site and said she was attending Miami University (I wonder if she knows it’s in Ohio) and was majoring in forensics. What if she can’t pass the FCATs and get a diploma because she pass a writing test?
I don’t know elliesmom, it sure seems like our local minimart and restaurant only hire people with multiple piercings who can’t add, subtract, or speak English. Then people wonder why their business is struggling.Ai yi yi!
The really sad part is that I don’t think a professional career is the goal. Where I live we have people who genuinely have the goal of collecting all they can from the Gov, because they see no point in working. They literally plan to collect welfare and dream of suing some big corporation. It’s all about the pride of getting something for nothing and screwing the system.
Holy fucking shit. I’m just stunned at this insanity.
I’m not stunned at Ms.Jeantal. Unfortunately, there are thousands more just like her. I am stunned that she’s being stroked by the news media. She’s going to walk away from this with an even higher opinion of herself than she already has. Which is sad.
The insanity is that I even thought to watch the clip above. I didn’t last 45 seconds.
See, this is the problem with “reclaiming” words, including words like slut or bitch. If your goal is to render them meaningless, even affectionate sometimes, than anybody can use them because they now have no power. The black community is trying to have it both ways, kind of like feminists tried with their “slutwalks.” You can’t do that, you will lose every time. Either a word is offensive or it’s not.
Yep.
I could stand to remove that word from the English vocabulary. If it cost us Huck Finn that would not be too high a price.
But it would have to be taboo for EVERYONE.
The worst hypocrites are the Vile Progs who laugh when black comedians use the word.
I have to disagree. Words should just be…words. They should not claim some nefarious meaning that people can use to hurt others. I hate all the PC baloney. It makes victims where none should exist. I refuse to be insulted when someone calls me granny or Mic or whatever words they try to use.
I like how Eleanor Roosevelt thought about this:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
yttik, you read my mind.
So all that marching, all those demonstrations, all that bitching, moaning and fighting I did in my teens to make sure that NOBODY would ever call someone that word was for THIS?!
N*gga, please…. I have NO time…… None. Ever again.
I know young white women who are this stupid. Race has nothing to do with it. Dumb is dumb. It is not fixable. It just is.
She’s not stupid because she’s black. She’s just stupid.
Word.
Let me be clear. The only reason I had BO’R on is that the rerun follows Greta.
Bill O’Reilly is as big an a$$h*le as the rest of them. He is now saying in his “memo” that Zimmerman started the “fracas” by not following the 911 operator’s direction and got out of his car. He also said that GZ “racially profiled” TM because of the recent break-ins and burglaries in the community. All this and showing the 13-14 year old’s photo.
Bill O’Reilly is always about two years behind everyone else. He is too busy talking to hear anyone else.
B’OR is the ultimate old white gasbag. I’m betting someone on his “staff” has set him up by not updating his “knowledge base”. And laughing behind his back about it.
That’s why I watch Hannity.
Everyone in the media makes money if the insanity continues. And they get all the moneys if there is an all out race war. He was probably dreaming of a new jet as he said that. None of these war baiters or race baiters have souls.
Rachel also apparently said Trayvon thought he was going to be “raped”. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t beating someone up just because you think they are gay is a federal hate crime? I think she may be testifying again in another court case and this interview will be played for the jury.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/15/evil-hag-nancy-grace-says-george-zimmerman-driving-through-taco-bell-every-night-eating-churros/
didn’t she get the memo that the dems are supposed to like hispanics
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/justice/zimmerman-juror-book/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
zimmerman juror speaks
Balogna.
I saw that interview. Ha, “social engineer”. What an idiot. I wasn’t sure, but I think she basically said the system failed and the mob needs to get justice some other way. Or something.
Yeah, it’s mob justice.
Go Greta!
“Social Engineer” Jasmine Rand is a moron. I’m glad Greta stuck it to her.
Anyone know wtf a “social engineer” is?! Is that a new position from OFA?
OMG! I found it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
The kind of social engineering that Rand is talking about is Vile Proggery at its very worst.
It’s manipulation and control of other people.
So it’s just a fancier name for grifting?
I also like how she throws in “federal preemption” there at the end — that doesn’t mean what she thinks it means.
Seriously — that is Civil Procedure 101/1L shit right there. Law schools really are producing some losers to keep that tuition money rolling in.
AA Studies and all the other minority/identity group “Studies” are academic bullshit.
You might as well get a degree in underwater basket weaving.
She must be one of those White African Americans.
FSU College of Law really must suck if someone who doesn’t know what federal preemption is makes the mock trial team.
My sincere apologies to anyone who has one of those degrees but you got ripped off.
She’s a mock lawyer.
Very mockable too.
It’s one of them redneck schools. Their mascot is a creepy-ass cracka.
I flunked out of my courses in underwater basket weaving, but I hold a black belt in haiku.
I was in a mock trial team in High School. Can I be a lawyer?
Anyone else catch the smart ass remark Rand made about “I haven’t been practicing law as long as YOU have” to Greta?
By the way, she’s the idiot who wore a hoodie yesterday on CNN.
I’m starting to wonder if hoodies scramble brains. Jasmine and Jeantel need their own Dumb & Dumber tour. Two idiotic female pawns sympathetic to a male dominant grotesque “gangsta-culture”.
Feminism is dead. As is the educational system.
All my obot/progressive friends seem to be completely fact free and emotionally driven. Is that new, or have I just not noticed before?
You noticed before Dandy – you just forgot for awhile to protect your sanity 🙂
You must know my sister. 😦
off topic
http://shark-tank.net/2013/07/10/ft-hood-survivor-says-hes-embarrassed-for-eric-holder/
this is one hell of a statement about an U S Attorney General
People on Twitter pissed about juror 37. I know, it’s impotence personified, but still. But what did they think was going to happen?? They exploited TM relentlessly. Did they not think anyone else would?
As far as I can see, everybody who can is getting a piece of that poor young man. And, yes, I do have sympathy for him, and for his mother, who I do genuinely think cares or cared at the time. Unfortunately she opened a rotten can of worms by trying to force this thing, and now we’ve got a tinderbox set to explode. I do not feel good about what’s going to happen this week. It’s July, it’s hot, and tensions are running high. I think I’ll avoid going out as much as possible.
She and the other jurors earned a piece of the action. Unlike most of the people trying to cash in they were dragged into this.
Ugh. I spent way too much time this morning searching on other high-profile cases where jurors wrote books. (Lots: OJ, Charles Manson, the Menendez brothers, Scott Petersen, etc.) Because I am getting quite a few “shocked, SHOCKED!!!!!” emails on this subject from my friends.
And then I try to point out that if you were going to try to get on a jury in order to score a sweet, sweet book deal, wouldn’t it be more lucrative if you convicted the guy? Because if he’s acquitted the Son of Sam law does not apply and: more competition for your book.
I am not making much headway.
If I were a juror on a high profile case I’d probably write about it.
Yeah, 90% probability.
The civil case would make it worse. Even a federal court case would, because making it about race means O’Mara can introduce things from TM’s life that show he was a petty criminal, a drug abuser and self-described gangsta. I guess according to Jeantel, changing the -er to an -a changes the meaning somehow, but I’m not sure where it would apply in that case.
So, adding -er to a word makes it racist? I’m so lost on this.
I’d love to see a hashtag where poeple swap er for a. Like killer = Someone who ends a life with malice. Killa = badass pimp who takes care of business
15. that could be one heck of a new app. Did you ever consider it?
I am watching a livestream from LA – a bunch a punks are trying to start a riot but they can’t reach critical mass because the LAPD swoops in and starts kettling the area (closing off access and egress).
When the cops show up the punks scatter like cockroaches.
Turns out, this shit is really media generated. There aren’t enough real people that are brainwashed into a lynch mob. Gives me hope.
The Korean store owners showed how to survive an urban riot.
1. Buy guns and ammo.
2. When a riot starts stand in front of your store and on the roof with your guns.
3. Point your guns at anyone who comes close to your store.
Also learn to say this when they say “You can’t kill all of us.”
“Maybe, but I’ll kill you first.”
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Protesters-March-Through-Streets-215618071.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand
Good. 🙂
Nesting on WP sucks this was in answer to Cops stopping a riot. 🙂
ROFLMFAO!
That was based on a faked Youtube video of a supposed real Wheel of Fortune episode.
http://suckersonparade.blogspot.com/2013/07/al-sharpton-readies-his-tropical-suits.html
here we go again
From the comments at TDH:
Race, shmace. I am weary of thugs and thug-wannabes, who can be found as small percentages of all ethnic groups.
What a sad state of affairs that the commenter can be that delusional. Just wow.
Low information commenting seems a natural progression from the same way of voting. Here’s their theme song;
And all the while ignoring the simple fact that TM was pummeling GZ’s face and slamming his head onto concrete, and that it was TM who committed assault against GZ. All…ALL the other stuff is just not relevant.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/race-riots-in-la-trayvon-mob-sends-two-people-to-hospital-for-looking-at-them/
looks like LA is giving backtrack and holder just what they want
Holy Haruhi, the site is loading slowly and incompletely this early morning.
I think the Klown needs to put a few extra hamsters to running in the wheels. 🙄
“Anything free is worth exactly what you pay for it”
Actually, I should go to bed, but I’m entering contests on pch.com.
I guess that’s my version of seeking something for nothing. 😛
Too late. I already entered.
I might have accidentally cooked the hamsters. Tastes like chicken.
😆 Dandy
Since MSNBC is still level 9 pissed, I was watching some of their pasty white hosts and the guy who shook down MSNBC to get a show.
A woman was on going back to this theory that Trayvon Martin had the right (or duty) to beat George Zimmerman for looking at him because he has ill will. That makes her another Rachel Jeantel, egging Martin into a fatal confrontation.
There have been a lot of stupid pronouncements in the last few days, like it being open season on young black men or that black teens need to wear suits everywhere to be safe. I’d like to offer my own. It seems if you are not black enough and you want to join a neighborhood watch, do it from a bunker in your home. If you dare to walk on the grounds of your own apartment building, you are fair game to any black kid who wants to throw a beat down because you disrespected him with your eyes.
SOP for ours and most NW’s is “Go Out In PAIRS”. In fact we have a buddy system for the times one of us might be alone in our car and see something weird. We first call a buddy and get him/her to start coming our way, and THEN we call the cops. Most times the buddies get there first. Two witnesses is always better than one.
The problem with this “disrespected him with his eyes” is that non-black citizens are getting the message to have no interaction with blacks. While the Vile Progs message is that community groups trying to prevent crime are racist or something, these types of communications about interaction get taken the wrong way and a step beyond. While ordering people to maintain a blank demeanor to avoid disrespecting someone you do not know will lead to avoidance of any contact. This will mean in situations far beyond dark neighborhoods and neighborhood watch. Who is going to want to do business with anyone with whom you have to school your every facial expression, who wants to hire anyone who you can’t look at? Who will want to be in a social situation in which you cannot use your frigging face? As an example my dry cleaner of about 20 years is black and all of his employees are black. Because I am in a hurry, hot in the summer, tired and frowny when I go in, should I now be concerned that I am going to offend someone? Should I just find another dry cleaner to avoid offending? Why should I have to even think about such a stupid thing? Do any of these idiot commentators even think about what they are suggesting?
Sounds a lot like how an abuse victim is trained to act toward her/his abuser.
Avoid the person. Avoid eye contact. Avoid direct contact. Use soft, submissive voice if you need to talk at all. Etc.
EXACTLY. And I say no abuse. No.
One of the better articles I’ve read on the Zimmerman Hispanic/Latino issue written before the trial.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/07/12/george-zimmerman-family-deliberately-downplayed-his-latino-roots/