AlwaysLurkin
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Stop acting like yall didn't have a few friends that was like this girl,this is a good opportunity for her so I don't see how yall can hate on this
Tom Joyner offers Rachel Jeantel a FULL SCHOLARSHIP to any HBCU - (Trayvon Martin)
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
how this turn into a damn hate thread 
They cured AIDS???
Illiteracy IS NOT AIDS
There is a cure for it (illiteracy)
and it's called education.
aka...AIDS is not curable but illiteracy can be cured by being educated. How do you bold half a sentence and pretend you don't understand what I just said.
yeah she will leave as dumb as she went in.
This chick is illiterate. Why the fukk is Joyner trying to send her to college?
How exactly are we meant to lift someone from illiteracy other than educate them, while I see the POV of you and @Spud34, something is missing here. You meet many people who fail out of high school, end up in jail for example and then go on to eventually pass their GED, study to get into university and begin a new life.
Something is missing in your logic, surely if someone is 'stupid' (I don't believe these people are purely stupid) and I wanted to help change their life around, allowing them a chance to redo their high school diploma and giving them a chance to further their education would be the only way to actually help them rise from said stupidity.
Noone is inherently stupid, how exactly can we make them go from illiteracy to intelligence without bypassing the stage where we actually educate them.
The dude isn't going to randomly chuck her in a HBCU, he wants her to study the basics first and progress on and then once she is ready for the next step he will fund her university. I honestly can't see how anyone can even fault his plan.
Please elaborate on this.... both you and @Spud34, very interesting in your POV
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feelosofer
#ninergang
I'm glad that some good could come from this trial. I hope she accepts his offer and gets a good education. Maybe she can become a lawyer. I wish her all the best.
He coulda given her money to whatever school she got accepted into, not just limited to a raggedy HBCU
Raggedy HBCU? Maybe due to her experience he wants her to be in an environment where she is most comfortable ?
white people sittin back like
"look they still bashing each other even when one of them tries to help the other one!"
LMAO
Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
Not going to bash someone getting a chance, i really hopes she takes advantage of it makes something of her life, best case would be her moving away from where she lives now, peer pressure to drop out of school, struggle to get her GED, someone said she is poor, then you know her folks can't do jack for her. I would consider this a success if she moves away get a stable job and is around positive people. Plus lose that body fat, not a good look.
I like what this man is trying to do, but I'm not going to pretend like being ill-prepared for school will end with success. This isn't really a commentary on Rachel (I don't know much about her), but more-so the idea on what college is supposed to be and the purpose it serves.
College is suppose to be about higher education; We're supposed to learn literacy and all that other sh!t in elementary school, otherwise, college would just be an overly-expensive extension of high school more-so than it already is the first couple of years :shrug2:
Breh, you have raised good points but again, the girl obviously failed her education first time round and this dude isn't just pushing an illiterate person into college. He is giving her a chance to gain her diploma again and then go into college.
I don't know where this mentality that if someone failed something or if they have literacy issues they are somehow a lost cause who don't deserve to be educated.
How exactly are we meant to make a person like Rachel better without educating her ? Seriously. Education is the only way we can deal with illiteracy and he is giving her that.
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Yep..
Haven't even gotten to the posts from the "HBCU's can't compare to the white mans universities" crowd yet...But I'm sure they're in here somewhere...
dontreadthis
philly.
clocked in much later than I expected but the venom and disdain for them is as strong as ever.
The ''why send her to a raggedy HBCU' is in here somewhere
Very interested to hear the brehs @Lewis Black @No_bammer_weed and @Malta take on this topic.
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