badgenome on 26 March 2012
| Kasz216 said: even though the guy who shot him is half Hispanic... and from pictures looks noticeably Hispanic. |
Really, there's no such thing as half-Hispanic. George Zimmerman's Germanic name aside, his mother is from Peru and so is likely either mestizo or fully Amerind, making him racially a mestizo himself, and he's a Spanish speaker, therefore he's unquestionably Hispanic by any definition. Since the media doesn't know how to process such a thing, though, they have been almost as dogged in their efforts to push him as a "white guy" as they have been not to publish a single picture of Treyvon Martin that isn't half a decade old.
I don't know what happened, but the way the media has handled this thing fucking stinks.
