Rachel Jeantel on Trial

Witness Rachel Jeantel continues her testimony during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2013 — Rachel Jeantel's testimony on the witness stand during the George Zimmerman murder trial was cringe-inducing, embarrassing, and mortifying to watch. As a Black woman I have been ridiculed for “talking white” and Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old prosecution witness in the trial of George Zimmerman, has been the subject of conversation, much of it unkind, on social media. Jeantel was on the phone with Trayvon Martin, when the unarmed, 17-year-old was shot toA predominantly white jury is not going to like Rachel Jeantel. Let's just be real here.As much as anything else in the saga of race, fear, and firearms that is the death

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