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In a Miami auditorium less than three miles from where slain teen Trayvon Martin is buried, his friend Rachel Jeantel on Friday was presented her high school diploma, fulfilling the promise she said she made him.
The moment was even more poignant with Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, looking on.
“Her coming is like having Trayvon there saying, ‘You did it. You proved people wrong,’” Jeantel told Yahoo News.
Jeantel was talking on the phone with Martin, 17, in the last moments of his life on Feb. 26, 2012. The unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, then 28, as the two fought on a dark neighborhood sidewalk in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The case roused a national conversation about racial profiling, self-defense, gun control, vigilantism, civil rights and more.
Jeantel was a key prosecution witness, but her demeanor and speech on the stand often detracted from her testimony. Then 19, she used terms such as “creepy" and “cracker” to describe Zimmerman, whom she said was aggressively following Trayvon before their phone call was silenced during the scuffle.
you know a really great answer to those who tried to demean, invalidate and make fun of her, if this were to lead to further education and one day being voted into a high office, it would not quell the racist from still dragging out the old familiar dead horse and try to steal her glory but in their heads they would know the truth of the lies and innuendo they promote and continue to until.....?
kudos's to her and her dedication in the bigoted act of of trying to clown her she's proven who the clowns really are, God Bless her and her journey through life with hopes of America being all it can be to help her and all who want to step up.
