What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

[TW: Murder, dehumanization] She did not understand that there was going to be this good cop, bad cop type of personalities in that courtroom. She didn’t – and when she came in contact with Don West, even at the deposition, she didn’t understand that he was going to be jumping all over her, because her question, to me, after, when she was, when we were sitting down speaking, she says, well, my first contact with Don West he was very hostile towards me. And, you know, these aren’t the words she used, these are my words. And then she inquired, she said, well, doesn’t he want to know the truth?

She thought she was there to tell the truth

They didn’t prep her

And as a 19 year old immigrant girl with her THIRD language as english

she listened to them kill the only boy who hadn’t made fun of her

I wish that experience on a whole bunch of you with no shame in my heart

Rachel Jeantel’s Attorney Rod Vereen talks with Roland Martin | Black America Web

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I just want to hold her. God.

(via angrybrownbaby)

I haven’t reblogged much about this, and don’t intend to make this a habit, but I wanted to share the bold, and also repeat:

“she listened to them kill the only boy who hadn’t made fun of her

I wish that experience on a whole bunch of you with no shame in my heart"

(via frank-e-fighting-words)

(Source: blackamericaweb.com, via crossedwires)

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