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Spider Jerusalem

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31. Misled? Not at all.

Reply to Egalitariat (Original post)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:50 PM

Mar 2012

Would you have thought differently about the shooting if, instead of George Zimmerman, he were called Jorge Carpintero? If so, why? The fact remains that if Trayvon Martin had been a white kid and not black, he probably wouldn't have been shot, and that he was seen as suspicious because he was black and walking through this "gated community". The fact that Zimmerman has a Hispanic mother doesn't really change the basically racist motivations.

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Here is a picture of the "white guy" that killed Trayvon Marton [View all] Egalitariat Mar 2012 OP

Latinos can be white guys too MrScorpio Mar 2012 #1

They can be asian, too~! MADem Mar 2012 #11

South America is full of Asian-Latinos nt MrScorpio Mar 2012 #13

Yes, I know a bunch of Japanese - Latinos out of a number of SA nations. nt MADem Mar 2012 #16

peru had a guy named alberto fujimora as president arely staircase Mar 2012 #22

White Hispanic and Latino Americans FredisDead Mar 2012 #2

What difference does it make? Texasgal Mar 2012 #3

+1 Broderick Mar 2012 #38

Thanks, I guess. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2012 #4

Yep, white, latino, large, overweight, with a German surname. So? MADem Mar 2012 #5

i have a gaelic surname, fair skin arely staircase Mar 2012 #21

No One Has Been Mis-Led About This Murdering Little Racist Shit, Sweet-Heart The Magistrate Mar 2012 #6

Exactly. Well said. nt MADem Mar 2012 #12

Huh? qanda Mar 2012 #7

Okay. AtomicKitten Mar 2012 #8

The race of the shooter is pretty much irrelevant. Warren Stupidity Mar 2012 #9

Misled in what way? Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #10

This isn't new. xchrom Mar 2012 #14

How does this change the story? Vigilantism "justice" gone-murder salin Mar 2012 #15

There has been ethnically-based hostility ... Boojatta Mar 2012 #17

so suddenly backwoodsbob Mar 2012 #18

Hispanics ARE white. DevonRex Mar 2012 #19

Not all Hispanics are white... ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #24

NCIC asks for race. DevonRex Mar 2012 #33

thank you nt arely staircase Mar 2012 #35

No. Nt XanaDUer Mar 2012 #20

Some stories early on identified him as Hispanic ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #23

Most of us have been aware of his ethnicity for nearly a week. yardwork Mar 2012 #25

. Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #26

I really don't care about the race of the shooter OR that of the victim. Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #27

What have you been mislead about, do tell? LisaL Mar 2012 #28

I know a lot of racist Hispanics. Kalidurga Mar 2012 #29

Just because he may be Latino doesn't mean he can't be prejudiced or bigoted. pepperbear Mar 2012 #30

Misled? Not at all. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2012 #31

George Zimmerman is the son of a white parent and an hispanic parent lunasun Mar 2012 #32

No one has been misled. Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #34

They said he was Latino almost right from the beginning. Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #36

First of all, you don't have to dyed in the wool klansman to racially profile someone Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #37

And Skittles are the colors of a rainbow. chollybocker Mar 2012 #39

So Zimmerman can't be charged with shooting while white? Umm, OK. Kennah Mar 2012 #40

As I said on another board... Catherine Vincent Mar 2012 #41

I wasn't misled. Iggo Mar 2012 #42