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George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
Reuters via The National Review ^ | April 25, 2012

Posted on 04/25/2012 3:01:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A Reuters investigation has plenty of interesting details about Zimmerman and the events leading up to the shooting:

The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather — the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.

A criminal justice student who aspired to become a judge, Zimmerman also concerned himself with the safety of his neighbors after a series of break-ins committed by young African-American men.

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”


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KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
Jesse Jackson, please pick up the white courtesy phone!
1 posted on 04/25/2012 3:01:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

RACISM!/s


2 posted on 04/25/2012 3:04:35 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So now Zimmerman is a White-Hispanic-Black man?


3 posted on 04/25/2012 3:07:05 PM PDT by rdcbn
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So now Zimmerman is a White-Hispanic-Black man?

Is that what was behind Farakhan's "there goes your race" comments on interracial marriages?

4 posted on 04/25/2012 3:09:16 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rdcbn
What the media painted Zimmerman's ancestors as:

Ancestor of George Zimmerman:

The MSM is GUILTY of FRAUD!

5 posted on 04/25/2012 3:12:45 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He wasn’t suspicious of him because he was black because he wasn’t sure if he was black. Just a yuth prowling around in the rain.


6 posted on 04/25/2012 3:12:52 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: DannyTN
Don't know about that, but Zimmerman is definitely “Blacker” than Ben Jealous, the current head of the NAACP
7 posted on 04/25/2012 3:17:59 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

That’s really his name!!! ROFLMAO!


8 posted on 04/25/2012 3:21:05 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton heard “Zimmerman” and their anti-semitic, race-mongering instincts let loose before they realized the guy was Hispanic. They were so hoping that Martin had been shot by a white Jew, that they won’t give up the racial angle even though the facts have proven to be “inconvenient”. Meanwhile, white people are being beaten by black mobs because of hatred incited by professional race hustlers and the complicit media, who keep ignoring Zimmerman’s Hispanic roots so they can keep this a white vs. black issue. They’ll soon be accessories before the fact to murder, because the way things are going some people are going to get killed over this fiasco.


9 posted on 04/25/2012 3:21:34 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: DannyTN
It is. Zimmerman may just be more “Negro” than the acting head of the NAACP

Looks like the New Black Panthers want to off a Bro’

Lots of irony here- you just can't make this stuff up.

10 posted on 04/25/2012 3:24:21 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Articles like this make me want to puke/scream. This kind of scrutiny is destroying the U.S. of A.


11 posted on 04/25/2012 3:38:03 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator

AMAZING. He wasn’t called a 28 year old racist, armed vigilante.


12 posted on 04/25/2012 3:40:30 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (God is dead - William Hamilton....William Hamilton is dead - God (And he means it))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Link to entire article, must read:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425


13 posted on 04/25/2012 3:41:44 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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