∞ On Trayvon Martin and Racial Identity
“What does the word “Hispanic” mean? Does it mean that a Peruvian (which some sources say is the home of origin of George Zimmerman’s mother) cannot be white? Are people born in Spain not white? Are Peruvians and Puerto Ricans the same race? What should we call Brazilians—Portuganics?
Then we must ask the taboo question: what is white? This term gained forceful meaning in America when Christian European men found themselves between the indigenous peoples (that they slaughtered) and Africans (whom they enslaved). These so-called white men’s ancestors didn’t consider themselves one pandemic race. In the old days Vikings weren’t the same race as Greeks, Picts didn’t think they came from the same blood as Scots. To call a man a “white man” is racist terminology in itself. Terminology perpetrated and promoted by the media.”
