This is like the Jewish community disowning Barry Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater's politics was wrong, so he couldn't be Jewish. Zimmerman ran afoul of America's top dog protected class, so he couldn't be Hispanic. Zimmerman can't be Jewish either, as we will likely see.
The first lesson is that ideology trumps identity politics. The second lesson is that Hispanics and Jews, who can't access white guilt, rank below Blacks as a protected class. The Democrat Party enforces the pecking order.
This is like the Jewish community disowning Barry Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater's politics was wrong, so he couldn't be Jewish.Halakhically, Barry Goldwater was not Jewish. His mother was non-Jewish, his father a Jew who had converted to Episcopalianism. Politics has nothing to do with it.