| Kasz216 said: To be fair, I don't see what the relevence was to basically outting the fact that the girl was completely illiterate. They already established she didn't write the letter. |
I was referring to her lying under oath about why she wasn't at the funeral. (Also lying about her age, omitting Martin's words, etc.)
The beef seems to be that, basically, West shouldn't do his job as a defense attorney because Jeantel is young and black and female, so the optics are inherently bad if he tries to undermine her story (which, again, is his job). Whereas if she calls him retarded, she's just "keepin' it real". I mean, the hagiographies of her at Salon and The Nation and other places are just beyond parody. I seriously doubt Joan Walsh would be stressing the need for cultural sensitivity if Jeantel were, say, Honey Boo Boo's mama instead.
