[cynwoody]

Mr. George Zimmerman is at least 1/4 black, but you can’t really tell based on his looks.

Interesting hypothesis. If he's 25% black, how much is via his Peruvian mother vs his American father?

Remember what happens when we assume.

Well, you could ask the question about yourself, but the answer wouldn't matter.

[Verginius Rufus]

Zimmerman is said to be one-eighth black--his maternal grandmother was half-African in descent. I don't know if his black great-grandfather was entirely of African descent, or if the other ancestral lines in Peru might have had a slight amount of African ancestry, so the one-eighth may not be precisely correct.

Homer Plessy, the Louisiana man who was arrested for sitting in a "white" car, in the case known as Plessy v. Ferguson which resulted in the Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" doctrine, was one-eighth black, the same as Zimmerman. Plessy claimed that he shouldn't be considered black in terms of the Louisiana segregation law.