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Ms. Jaentel
Reading yesterday’s newspapers, listening to MSNBC and CNN last evening, the single dominant impression from the Zimmerman trial fallout is that the black and white leftist extremists who have dominated the media landscape unanimously picture themselves as separate from American society.
Not a close call.
Leftists of all ages, attired in racist armor, have been borderline giddy telling journalists since Saturday night that life is Us vs. Them, despite overwhelming contrary evidence.
Spewing as they went, Georgetown Prof. Michael Eric Dyson, fellow academic Melissa Harris-Perry, activist Joy Reid, all black, all on the sunny side of 50, all supposedly sophisticated persons of the wider world, not recluses, testified that racial advances since the days of slavery have been foolishly overrated. Racism against blacks, they said, is as virulent as the ‘50s and ‘60s when Dr. King only thought he was triumphing, changing minds and hearts.
Scenes of progress in racial relations, they agree – almost chirpily – are illusory. These self-ordained spokespersons are not suffering so much in their self-imposed separate world as they are frolicking. Isn’t that irrational?
For the 48 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed, Americans have been loudly bragging to the universe about essaying more progress in racial relations than any society in history.
European, African and Asian bigots never dared disagree because none stood on discernible legs.
Rachel’s Vision
And then along came a bulky black girl, proudly illiterate, vivaciously vulgar, openly racist, like a reborn anomaly from 1950s southern Mississippi or one of those green robots from old science fiction films.
Someone as arrogantly, strikingly out of step as Rachel Jeantel, naturally, became a darling of the left media.
When she took the witness stand and mumbled unintelligibly in a peculiar dialect that would have embarrassed even people who did not like her, Liz Alvarez, reporter for The New York Times, predictably raved.
Astonishingly calling her changing stories, profanity, anger, blazing illiteracy and failure to communicate “powerful testimony,” Ms. Alvarez was in the media majority. This gives you a taste of how the trial was covered.
That a 19-year-old with no known mental handicaps could be so wretchedly ignorant, so peacefully unaware while walking around in contemporary society is a miracle comparable to sending a spaceship to the sun.
When the girl, Rachel Jeantel, spoke with Piers Morgan at CNN last evening, she made numerous jaw-dropping statements, profane and otherwise. This was the most revelatory:
Referring to her “anger and disappointment” at the jury’s clean finding, Ms. Jeantel, dividing herself from normal Americans, said that juries “are old school, we are new school.”
For structure or content, this may not rank with the Declaration of Independence. It should, however, be memorized by her fellow (?) Americans working to secure the future for our country.
