[John S Mosby]

And another name-related fact-— Zimmerman’s father was a Virginia Magistrate, and his mom was Hispanic, a Peruvian.

Hence the interesting idiotic description by the LIB press of describing Zimmerman as a White Hispanic. Silly beyond the mentality and lack of it— beyond the words.

A White Hispanic. So— Spanish Caucasian heritage are White Supremacists.... dontcha know? Under the above asssssumptions.

[Verginius Rufus]

Zimmerman's Peruvian mother is one-quarter African by ancestry. The rest is apparently all or mostly indigenous Peruvian, not Spanish. The media was hoping for a story they could spin as proof that all white Southerners are unreconstructed Klansmen, so they invented the designation "white Hispanic."

Hispanic seems to outweigh "black" for people of both Hispanic and black ancestry, so why did it not in George Zimmerman's case?

The Homer Plessy who is remembered because of the Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) was one-eighth black. He contended that the rules requiring black people to ride in separate train compartments from white people should not apply to him because he was mostly white. The courts did not accept that. But Zimmerman is just as black as Plessy. (Plessy is, I would guess, a name of French origin--probably originally Plessis.)