“White Hispanic.” That’s how most media outlets have decided to describe George Zimmerman, a man who would merely be just another Hispanic if he hadn’t shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who is black. The new “white Hispanic” term is necessary in telling the Martin story in a more comfortable way. It’s the way to lay Martin’s death squarely at the feet of “the system.” And “the system” is a white thing, don’t you know….
The aging race industry that continues to see the world through a half-century-old prism of Jim Crow, and still wants you to see it that way too, is determined to intimidate European Americans into their assigned role, heedless of facts or the lack of them.