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In reply to the discussion: Calling George Zimmerman a "white Hispanic" means what, exactly? [View all]mzteris
(16,232 posts)and Hispanics whose skin color is black.
They don't identify as black, they identify as Hispanic.
Which is one of the reasons I chose a Spanish immersion program for my African American son. So that he would understand that the color of one's skin had nothing to do with one's identity.
Of course it has almost everything to do with how OTHERS may perceive you, but that is another very ugly story.
(FYI - or FWIW - The original school into which he was enrolled had several "black" Hispanics teaching in the school. They were proud to be Dominican or whatever other Country nationality they were. They did NOT segregate or identify based on the color of their skin. Which is something this country should embrace.)
And yeah, I think Zimmerman's racism played a large role in his actions. That and his paranoid delusions of grandeur and power. He carried a GUN so he was important and powerful. uh-huh.