[marktwain]

Hispanic is not a race. That is, of course, correct. But the race card being played is that a white guy killed a black kid out of racism.

If the other party is another approved minority, hispanic, then the race card loses a lot of its power.

[aruanan]

But the race card being played is that a white guy killed a black kid out of racism.

If the other party is another approved minority, hispanic, then the race card loses a lot of its power.

There's a lot of stuff called racism that's just plain stupidity. On the other hand, I know the attitude of a lot of Mexicans toward blacks and it's not, kumbaya, we're all de colores. I'm not singling Mexicans out (or even implying that Zimmerman is Mexican, though given that name and complexion, he could easily be hebreo sefaradit like some I've known in Mexico City), it's just that I know there's more of that attitude among Mexicans than among Caribbean Hispanics. It's probably because there are a lot more black Caribbean Hispanics than there are black Mexicans. In Mexico, unlike the Caribbean, the low class ethnic group is Indian, not black. In the Caribbean, indio is just a term to describe complexion.