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Originally Posted by WCsweet<3
While police say that Zimmerman is white, his family says that he identifies as Hispanic. This doesn't necessarily matter, just a tidbit.
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His family probably knows that being Hispanic does not prevent someone from being white. However, Zimmerman may identify as mulatto/mestizo Hispanic. His last name and perhaps his voice may have led police to think he was non-Hispanic white. Or, Zimmerman may identify as white Hispanic until people accuse him of racial profiling. Who knows.
This matters because (race and ethnicity are not as invisible as people pretend that it is and) a whole lot about this situation would be different if Zimmerman was not assumed to be white. Interracial violence generally has different motivations and is responded to differently than intraracial violence.