badgenome said:
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. |
Yeah, I know technically there is no thing as Half Hispanic, but you know what i mean... essentially that only his dad was white and well... the guy doesn't even look white... and I mean, i'm someone that has a hard time telling hispanic people from white people... and indian and arab people too. Honestly I just suck a figuring out peoples race by there features.
Is Zimmerman German, that'd make more sense anyway. Always thought it was Jewish, which would make it even wierder, because he'd be part arab too.
The media handling of it has been pretty awful, but I think the storm would of happened even if the media would of covered it better.
Once peopel catcha hint of a hotbutton issue they lose all restatraint and patience, even if the jury is still out on a lot of things.
