":::Sighs.  Listen very carefully.   I'm NOT gonna belabor this nonsense with you all.  The fact is that Zimmerman is Caucasian, and officially considered so.  You think that ""white"" has to be red-headed or blond haired people with freckles?   FAIL.  There are ""dark whites"" in the world.  Also, for that matter, there's such a thing as ""white Hispanics"" too. (Andy Garcia, Ricky Martin, Cristina Aguilera, etc)  My point is that his mother was not black looking.   Again, Zimmerman is basically a white dude.  You are whatever your father is anyway (sperm blood etc....though some people have that backwards...another debate.)  But to say idiotically that ""Zimmerman is not white"" in your edit comment is POV madness and stupidity, and is just plain inaccurate.   Even if his mother was sorta ""darkish looking"" it doesn't matter.   Zimmerman is basically a white dude, and identifies himself as such, and is counted as such.  Also, again, in general, NOT ALL ""Hispanics"" are ""brown"" (though lazy sloppy types like to many times stupidly think that, per their brain-washing and ignorance of history, or vision problems or whatever).  Some are white (I mean LILY WHITE), and some are ""brown"", and some are even outright black.  But you can't go around saying that Zimmerman was a ""Hispanic"" (in any full-fledged or basic sense) if A) his father was white, and (as sexist as this sounds it's just a biological fact) you are whatever your father is, and he has his father's last name, and his mother was NOT a black or dark brown Peruvian, but just a general olive type looking one maybe.   The most you can say is that Zimmerman is PART ""Hispanic"" (whatever that word means anyway), and basically Caucasian.   Zimmerman looks like a dark white dude.  I know some Greeks and Croatians and Armenians who look just like Zimmerman.   And many Jews who look like him.  It's WHATEVER.  He's white (basically).   Get over it.    

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