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In reply to the discussion: What White People Don't Understand About Rachel Jeantel / witness in Zimmerman trial [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)street talk and urban talk. She is from Miami and plus her mother seems to be an immigrant. There is a difference in communication like on the streets in large urban areas, with diversity and some urban areas in the suburbs, or upper residential areas. It also applies culturally. Some areas in the United States are like night and day. I would communicate a different way on the streets than in an upper scale community.
A lotta young people that like Hip Hop or rap, communicate a certain way. Take the word nigger for example. They call both Black and White people nigger in a positive or negative way among that Generation. Many of that Generation is against the system or authority. You have two worlds colliding probably. I imagine Trayvon probably was wild and Zimmerman this very Conservative guy, and despised people like Trayvon. He saw them as no good.