A Letter to Rachel Jeantel - An Apology on Behalf of the Whole World

[TorchTheWitch]

92. I noticed that too

And I'm envious. I have nearly total recall of stupid trivia but can't remember important details like a person's name. For instance, I can't for the life of me remember the year that my dad died. I can remember the day, the time, what I was wearing when I found out, where I was exactly in my room and how I was sitting, the weather, which ear I had the phone against, etc., etc., but I can't remember the damn year though I do remember the month and the approximate date of the month. I constantly refresh my memory on the year, but I just can't pin it in my head. And right at this moment I admit I STILL don't know what the year was.

I feel so badly for Rachel. She did damn well on the stand. That git West wasn't able to confuse her by his constant twisting of her testimony to try and get her to misstate something she already said, and she knew exactly what he was doing and why. I can't say that I would have been able to keep from making a misstatement under such harassment, and I'm more than twice her age, educated and raised in middle class white privilege in a world where mass shootings didn't happen and one could feel safe without locking their doors even when no one was home or at night.

I can't even imagine how I'd feel being so ridiculed for damn near everything about me as though I'm so how at fault and on a national stage. I'm sickened that people even here on DU have done so.