MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Re: How about a light hearted Bin topic... race.

> Since the Trevon killing, there have been (that I've seen, maybe more?) six news
> stories of some random white dude getting the snot kicked out of him in
> 'retaliation'.
>
> The Black Panthers have even called for the "spilling of the blood" of "blue eyed
> whities" in retribution.
>
> Yet...
>
> Travon's killer wasn't even "white"... he was hispanic.
>
> But I haven't heard of any cases in the news of any 'retaliation' attacks against
> hispanics, thankfully.
>
> And you can't even argue that the uptic in violence is in response to the white cops
> that intially let the killer go... because the intial responding officers included
> "African American" cops.
>
> An undercurrent of black on white racist hate that just needed an excuse to express
> itself? The fact that the excuse that doesn't even fit the bill all the more
> highlights that racism is in play.

I believe Zimmerman is half Hispanic, his father is white.

The issue is that many people, especially those who are hung up on race, need to see things in a simplistic, all or nothing way. If you accept that race in 2012 is more complicated than just black or white, you have to start seeing people as individuals instead of just a collection of stereotypes, and some people can't deal with that.

In cases like this, they go with the more compelling story. Hispanic-on-black violence doesn't really resonate that much, at least not as much as a white guy shooting an unarmed black kid and getting away with it, so George Zimmerman is white.

It's the same thing with the president. By parentage, President Obama is just as white as he is black. But the first half-black president isn't as powerful an image as the first black president (regardless of whether such a thing makes you misty-eyed or afraid and angry) so President Obama is black.