Zimmerman Raised With Black Children, Is Black

The Narrative just took a bullet to the chest.

Perhaps inevitably, the story starts with, yes, a dog:

A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.

The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law’s dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again. An officer came to the house, county records show. “Don’t use pepper spray,” he told the Zimmermans … “Get a gun.”

The policeman suggested he buy a gun. Do the police tell a lot of people they consider irresponsible and dangerous to buy guns? Probably not.

The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather – the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.

That sound you hear is the press frantically trying to figure out how to update their ethnic style guides — is Zimmerman now a “black white Hispanic?” Or do we use the Obama standard (ever heard our historic POTUS called a “white black?” no you have not), in which case I guess Zimmerman is just… black.

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”

Well, all I know is someone’s not getting invited to dinner with Al Sharpton or Barack “my son would look like Trayvon” Obama. Which is too bad, because Big Boi sounds delicious.


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39 responses to “Zimmerman Raised With Black Children, Is Black”

  1. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Big Boi sounds delicious.

    Heh.

  2. latte island Avatar
    latte island

    They’ll call him an Oreo. (Black on the outside, white on the inside.)

  3. Deborah Avatar
    Deborah

    HA HA an Oreo. We all know this wasn’t a racist issue until certain people made it that way. Sock it to the media and the Trayvonites though. They deserve it.

  4. ern Avatar

    Sounds like Zimmerman is … American. Multi-ethnic, and thus difficult to place into a single racial group. Of course, on principle we shouldn’t even be having this conversation. If the racial roles had been reversed, I can’t see any pro-second amendment people changing their minds about things. Race matters only to those for whom race is significant. For most of us, it’s incidental to the facts. We might as well be talking about eye color, it’s about as important.

    It is amusing, though, to see the media narrative further tied up in knots. Funny how reality can get in the way of political correctness.

  5. bill Avatar
    bill

    No no no, I can’t believe you don’t see the out – it’s so obvious – he’s CATHOLIC!!!! Call Kathleen Sibelius!

  6. CR Avatar
    CR

    Wasn’t there a column recently endorsing the “one drop rule” of black ancestry? Basically, the suggestion was that if you have “one drop” of African origin anywhere in your ancestry you should consider yourself completely black for the purposes of ethnic identity. Ergo, his great-great grandfather makes Zimmerman 100% African American. Case closed!

  7. HopeyChangey Avatar
    HopeyChangey

    If Obama had a son, he would look like George Zimmerman.

  8. Chris in N.Va. Avatar
    Chris in N.Va.

    @HopeyChangey—

    BINGO!!

    @bill—
    Sandra Fluke will be having a press conference any day now…

    The sounds of Liberal heads (especially MSM) exploding everywhere is mimicking the “Mars Attacks!” aliens.

    Pass the popcorn.

  9. Fen Avatar
    Fen

    “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”

    To be precise, Zimmerman noticed Martin because he was *behaving* suspiciously – wandering around at night in the rain apparently casing out houses. Look to the 911 call – Zimmerman is not even certain of Martin’s race. Dispatchs asks if he can identify Martin’s race, Zimmerman says “he looks black”. Not “he’s black” but “I think he’s black”.

  10. nick Avatar
    nick

    “That sound you hear is the press frantically trying to figure out how to update their ethnic style guides”—Done: Just as Clarence Thomas is not really black, and Sarah Palin is not really a woman, Zimmerman, who lives in a gated community and works for The Man, cannot be really black or Hispanic. Politics trumps biology.

  11. Freddie Sykes Avatar
    Freddie Sykes

    Since Obama’s mother was a white American and his father was a black African, he is really a White Black African American. Just do not call him a “mutt” as he has recently become sensitive to the term.

  12. […] So it turns out that George Zimmerman is black. […]

  13. Mannie Avatar
    Mannie

    If Zerobama had a son. he might have looked like George Zimmerman.

  14. […] out Zimmerman was raised in a bi-racial family and he’s black. Well, slightly less black than Obama. With racial divisions being less black and white (heh), I […]

  15. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I used to be an Obama narrative, and then I took an arrow to the knee.

    Honestly, it’s not just that this is the most dishonest and divisive administration EVER. It’s that it seems to be composed entirely of twelve year old kids. They start these “narratives” with no other end in sight than getting elected, and they do it — yes, I have to say it — STUPIDLY. So they backfire. The thought that these idiots are handling foreign policy probably by “meme” and “what I learned in elementary school” has me waking up in the night in cold sweats.

    Mr. President, your dog is cooked.

  16. Daniel in Brookline Avatar
    Daniel in Brookline

    Well, then, may we expect an apology — no, wait, make that ANY RELEVANT REACTION AT ALL — from the stokers of race hatred? Mr. Sharpton? Rev. Jackson? Spike Lee? How about the people who attacked a random white man within an inch of his life and said “Now that’s justice for Trayvon”?

    Better yet, can we now just classify this as “black-on-black violence”, since, as we all know, the newspapers prefer not to report that?

    Freddie Sykes:
    Just do not call him a “mutt” as he has recently become sensitive to the term.

    Naturally. According to President Obama’s autobiography, mutts are for eating.

  17. […] from Classical Values on Zimmerman’s background: Well, all I know is someone’s not getting invited to dinner with Al Sharpton or Barack “my son […]

  18. Tatterdemalian Avatar
    Tatterdemalian

    What’s the SPLC doing these days? Think they’ll file a suit against ABC and NBC for “incitement to violence based on racial discrimination” like they did in their heyday against the KKK?

    Yeah, me neither.

  19. juliesa Avatar
    juliesa

    Zimmerman is part Peruvian. Don’t many Peruvians have Native American ancestry? If he had some Asian blood he’d be the Grand Slam of multi-ethnicity. I hope as our population becomes more multi-ethnic this political race card BS will go away, but people like Sharpton and Jackson are harder to shake off than a tick.

  20. submandave Avatar

    New narrative: We have to crucify Zimmerman to make a point about stopping this black-on-black murder epidemic!

  21. GreaterSapien Avatar

    The funny thing to me is, the only people who are still talking about race in this case seem to be people trying to battle the idea of Zimmerman being racist. There was a lot of attention given to the race aspect of things, but reality has shown the vast amount of the outrage was over the fact that Zimmerman was not being charged with anything. Since he’s been charged, things have quieted down. People have moved on. Except those like you, who, by actively making it “not about race,” are still talking about race.

  22. […] Classical Values | Zimmerman Raised With Black Children, Is Black […]

  23. CWLsun Avatar
    CWLsun

    Interesting. So it turns out George Zimmerman’s, “He looks black” is more aware of ethnic diversity than President Obama’s, “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon.”

  24. JiminNC Avatar
    JiminNC

    So his great-grandfather was part-black? So Zimmerman was 1/32 black or 1/64 black? Why shucks, I guesses he can shoots alls the black boys he wantses,

    Back here in the real world, for a person who is a tiny bit black to be racist so that he can identify with the dominant group is perfectly normal.

  25. Jim Treacher Avatar

    I suggest: White Hispanic*

  26. Jim Treacher Avatar

    With a footnote.

  27. Jenny Avatar

    I just read Jacob Sullum’s column in Reason. First paragraph, 2 little sentences: what we know about the case and the logical possibilities. What you all are writing is speculation at best.

  28. Eric Avatar

    Not your fault, but Coco has a bone to pick with the Reuters headline:

    “A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.”

    Coco wants to know why the breed name has to be in the headline. Would the race of a human attacker be treated in a similar manner?

  29. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Way to go Dave. Looks like you struck a nerve.

  30. Rob Crawford Avatar
    Rob Crawford

    ” Since he’s been charged, things have quieted down. ”

    BS. The calls for his blood are as loud as ever — you’ve just decided to ignore them.

  31. ice9 Avatar
    ice9

    Very smart people here. Media narrative…Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that the media narrative began when Zimmerman killed an unarmed person on community property, and then was not arrested, or even really investigated? If you folks did any reading, you’d notice that it was well into the scapegoat/strawman ‘media narrative’ that anybody even proposed that Zimmerman was anything but a hothead with a gun in a state which has privileged hotheads with guns over dead people. After all, ‘Zimmerman’ isn’t your obvious hispanic surname.

    And, by the way, that oh-so-influential Afro-Peruvian grandfather–regardless of skin tone–would have had to be a mighty influential fellow to exempt you guys from a little taint of tar-brush-love. Of course, you have strong opinions about how influential such people can be; a Kenyan father, absent or dead for 96% of the President’s life, is nevertheless credited by you with instilling him with deep and terrifying Mau-Mau sensibilities and therefore making him ineligible to be President, despite the complete lack of any evidence that has acted on them. Just the possibility that he might act on these imaginary sentiments makes him the most divisive president ever. Amazing powers! You are right to be so fearful of long-dead deadbeat dads. Plus, he was fed dog as a youth, rendering him gullible, stupid, cruel, and (natch) unfit for the presidency. Devious Mussulmen! Undercutting our political process by subtle dietary sabotage informed by the same supernatural prescience that allowed them to place birth notices in Honolulu newspapers to cover up the foreign birth of their mole-president! You are right to be mystified and terrified unto urolagnia by these supermen. I know see why Mr. Zimmerman felt the need to keep copper-jacketed tabs on the mysterious figure filtering ninja-like through his turf…his wise old grandfather transmitted to him, through blood and discipline, the faculties to detect potential dog-eating Mau Mau teleprompter-abusing socialist nazis. And Florida, through the poignant moronism of its crackpated legislators all aroused by the erotic totem of NRA-approved gestures of independence, bequeathed to him a portable, low-threshhold Right to be Terrified which he used to create the happy ending of a media narrative that permits fearful action based on fearful living to appear courageous and steadfast.

    No possibility that you are living in the media narrative, now, is there?

    ice9

  32. Beth in OR Avatar
    Beth in OR

    People concerned with Public Safety insist that paranoid homicidal maniacs should not be allowed to own guns. Race is not usually a factor in personality disorders.

    I have the human right to walk down the or sidewalk street without fearing for my life. If not, why the hell are we paying billions of dollars for civil law enforcement?

  33. Eric Scheie Avatar

    his wise old grandfather transmitted to him, through blood and discipline, the faculties to detect potential dog-eating Mau Mau teleprompter-abusing socialist nazis.

    Wow. I completely missed all of those details — not only about the inner workings of George Zimmerman’s mind, but about Trayvon Martin.

    Thanks for keeping us informed!

  34. Gringo Avatar
    Gringo

    ice9: tell that to Al Sharpton.

  35. […] nose all over his face and was busy smashing his head into the pavement; and (c) that Zimmerman had black family members, was part Hispanic, and had a reputation for helping black youths at risk.  Zimmerman instantly […]

  36. […] even more contemptible than that. Zimmerman isn’t just Hispanic, he’s part black. Did you ever see an MSM report identifying him as a “black and white Hispanic”? Of […]