Originally Posted by BWillie:
Trayvon Martin was a good kid. What happened to him was sad and unjustified.
What happened to Trayvon was sad. Not so sure it was unjustified. Trayvon may have done what he felt was right and so could have Zimmerman. Sometimes things just suck.
What bothered me the most about the media coverage of that whole incident was the media trying to whitewash Zimmerman. Dude is brown and Hispanic. That didn't mesh with what they wanted to portray, so they pushed an angle that didn't really exist. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider:
What happened to Trayvon was sad. Not so sure it was unjustified. Trayvon may have done what he felt was right and so could have Zimmerman. Sometimes things just suck.
What bothered me the most about the media coverage of that whole incident was the media trying to whitewash Zimmerman. Dude is brown and Hispanic. That didn't mesh with what they wanted to portray, so they pushed an angle that didn't really exist.
The Zimmer is HALF Hispanic. His father is American of German descent. Zimmerman isn't a name commonly found in Peru (where his mother is from). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx:
The Zimmer is HALF Hispanic. His father is American of German descent. Zimmerman isn't a name commonly found in Peru (where his mother is from).
You realize the vast majority of "African" Americans have a huge chunk of European heritage, right? One report said a 40% average Euro dna. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider:
You realize the vast majority of "African" Americans have a huge chunk of European heritage, right? One report said a 40% average Euro dna.
Ok... and you realize that Peru was conquered by Spain around 1529. The Spanish are white. If his father is a white American of German descent and his mom is Peruvian with even so much as a touch of white... then he is more white than anything else, right?
Completely unsure of what black people have to do with any of this. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx:
The Zimmer is HALF Hispanic. His father is American of German descent. Zimmerman isn't a name commonly found in Peru (where his mother is from).
Still Hispanic and definitely not a paleface in appearance. Weak argument. You should probably do some research on the whole German/South America thing. It's more common than you appear to know. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dallas Chief:
Still Hispanic and definitely not a paleface in appearance. Weak argument. You should probably do some research on the whole German/South America thing. It's more common than you appear to know.
Germans expatriating to South America doesnt make them Hispanic. The Zimmer definitely isnt a "paleface"... but his daddy is
As for him being half hispanic... I half agree. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx:
Germans expatriating to South America doesnt make them Hispanic. The Zimmer definitely isnt a "paleface". As for him being half hispanic... I half agree.
I'm not sure you know what Hispanic means. You should probably look that up as well. [Reply]
Hmmm... although he comes up with some really weird side conclusions on certain things, I think the evidence he presents would hold up in front of a jury that Jaentel was most likely not the person talking to Treyvon that night. [Reply]