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Showing Original Post only (View all)A Letter to Rachel Jeantel - An Apology on Behalf of the Whole World [View all]
Powerful, beautiful, heart-wrenching blog by Khadijah Costley White
I want to write you an apology for this whole world, even if its not my place to apologize. Im so sorry that youre sitting on the stand right now, being interrogated like a criminal instead of another victim. Im so sorry that people are judging you, fixated more on your beautiful brown skin, your carefully applied make-up, your body, your being, than your trauma and your pain. Im sorry that you were born into a country where a man can pursue and kill a black boy, your friend, and go home the same night with the blessings of law enforcement officers. Im sorry that youve been retraumatized, stigmatized, defamed, and attacked just because you were unlucky enough to love a black boy, to share time with him, to be the last one he ever called.
Im so sorry for your loss.
This letter, I know, doesnt make up for any of it. Not for the unimaginable grief and pain youve suffered in the last year. Not for the guilt or shame youve probably felt, which no doubt has affected your health and will continue to affect your life, your dreams, your faith. I cant even fix the extreme likelihood that you and your children might soon find it impossible to vote in your home state. Or that you were never taught to read cursive, or that the school you grew up attending was probably more like a prison than a place of learning. I cant promise that you, or another loved one (or mine) wont, yet again, die too soon, too young, too black.
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A Letter to Rachel Jeantel - An Apology on Behalf of the Whole World [View all]
K Gardner
Jun 2013
OP
It's just been tearing me up.. hard to watch. I wanted to go hug her, to somehow do exactly what
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#5
I think it was Glen Beck who was on the radio making fun of her tweets. Like a little boy he was
Maraya1969
Jun 2013
#80
Yes, they should. But they're not. And this tells you much about a person. n/t
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#81
Tears! To the Greatest page of DU and read widely. Thanks for Khadijah's wisdom and clarity.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#6
Khadijah Costley White is the author. I just posted her eloquent and moving commentary..
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#25
Thanks for posting the letter. I feel she has been put on trial. It isn't right. She is
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2013
#10
What a perfect way of expressing how difficult it is for her to "play the part" so many of the
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#16
Love you back. Mr. Bear has a heart issue and Youngest Bear abdominal migraines.
nolabear
Jun 2013
#28
What a perfect Assholian Example of why Rachel deserves an apology FROM THE WHOLE WORLD. Thank you.
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#17
I agree with you (though you may not with me, lol). About the third "I'm sorry" it started to
jtuck004
Jun 2013
#42
I laughed when the defense attorney kept pressing her, and she let loose with a bit, and
jtuck004
Jun 2013
#49
What i'm sensing is that you find it offensive that someone other than you has written something
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#61
She didn't ask for any of this and to hear the criticisms of her is indeed heartbreaking.
Marie Marie
Jun 2013
#33
#1: the whole world isn't watching. #2: Most people aren't thinking what yu say they are.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#32
#1. Yu is not a word. YOU is a word. 2. 'Whole world' was probably meant to be a largely symbolic
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#60
why don't some of you think this case is being watched all over the world?
noiretextatique
Jun 2013
#70
Given her willingness to lie to the prosector who interviewed her in April 2012,
Vattel
Jun 2013
#96
Posts like this keeps me coming back here. It was agonizing watching that defense lawyer hassle her.
grantcart
Jun 2013
#68
I know what you mean, GC. I take breaks, sometimes for months, but usually come back to find
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#71