Jeantel Recants: ‘Nigga’ Is in Fact Racist if People Like Rush Limbaugh Use Term

“Miami Girl” Rachel Jeantel Tells the World “Nigga” Is OK, Not Racist (Miami Herald)

Rachel Jeantel, who popularized the phrase “creepy ass cracker” in uncomfortable testimony that added a new racial dimension to the George Zimmerman trial, gave a lesson about Miami urban culture on CNN Monday night when she said that the word “nigga” isn’t a racist term.

Jeantel, 19, also discussed her feelings, marijuana use in her urban Miami community and the reaction to her testimony about talking by phone with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin just before Zimmerman shot and killed him in Sanford.

Zimmerman was acquitted Saturday and one juror had said earlier on the network that Jeantel’s slang-filled testimony – crucial for the prosecution -- was both not credible and hard to understand.

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