Zimmerman’s ‘racial identity’ is view with amusement here in south Louisiana. He is what is known locally as a ‘creole’. Someone who is mostly European descent but with a admixture of Negro and maybe Indian. Let’s put it this way. Mr. Zimmerman in 1960 would only have entered the now defunct Brennan’s Restaurant through the service entrance. The closest he would have gotten to table service was in busing the tables and moving up to waiter after a few years.
I wonder if the following would reduce racial tensions: George Zimmerman holds a press conference and says something like, “I don’t know how anyone got the idea I was white. I’m brown as can be, with the background to prove it, and — despite what La Raza seems to think — I’m Hispanic.”