[zeestephen]

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“Martin was black, and Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.”

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Just came across the above statement in a MSNBC.com article.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/25/10854229-witness-zimmerman-never-tried-to-help-trayvon-martin

Obama is universally described as “Black.”

Yet, his mother was white.

Zimmerman's father was white.

Why isn't Zimmerman described as being completely “Hispanic?”

Is there some secret DNA thing going on here that I don't know about?

Is this sexism?

Is female DNA less potent than male DNA?

Or is it just a convenient obfuscation to help the politically correct racial narrative of this story?

[Verginius Rufus]

Bill Richardson has a non-Spanish surname, but he is always called Hispanic.

There are some people in the Latin American countries who are entirely of European ancestry, or very nearly so. They tend to be at the higher income levels in those countries so maybe less likely to immigrate to the US than those of Indian, African, or mixed ancestry. There are Hispanics who could just as well have been born in Spain as in the Western hemisphere.

[thulldud]

When the gubmint reports crime stats, a “white” Hispanic is one that can be reported as “white” when he’s the perp, but if he’s the victim, he will be reported as “Hispanic.” This has been going on for years.

[drpix]

"Obama is universally described as “Black.” Yet, his mother was white."
" Zimmerman's father was white. Why isn't Zimmerman described as being completely “Hispanic?”
"Bill Richardson has a non-Spanish surname, but he is always called Hispanic.

Simply understood by the following Leftwing calculus (which works on every instance I've come across):

50% Black/Hispanic + 50% White + 100% hero of the Left = Black/Hispanic.
50% Hispanic + 50% White + 100% villain of the Left = White.
50% Black + 50% White + 100% villain of the Left = Oreo/UncleTom.

OR for the dumbed down minds of the Leftwing masses: Good = Black/Hispanic. Bad = White.