George Zimmerman's Ethnicity?

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Ferd

well. I cant control the word, but I dont allow the word to be used around me. I have issued the ultimatum to close family that if they percisted in using the word, then we would stop being around them. Our children will not be around them even if that means stopping to be at family gatherings.

the nonsense stopped. I attend church with many African American people. These are my chruch family. While I have not been confronted with a situation where one of them were to use the word around me, I can assure you that if that were to happen, I would most certainly tell them not to use the term around my family. not even once. I would do it as nicely as possible, but we just arent going to be around it.

more people should take that approach.

We did the exact same thing when we lived in the deep south. We were not having the N word--particularly in front of our kids. There's especially no excuse for a Christian to use it.

[houston]

I say "nigga" on a regular basis. Houston culture. Latinos have an identity crisis.

[Sam]

Racist hucksters like Sharpton, Jackson, Obama and others owe their existence (and funding) to promoting dissension between races.

[Godzchild]

As a American Indian, the wife of a black man and the mother to 2 bi-racial children, "nigger" was NEVER heard growing up (born in northern Colorado but mostly raised in Northern Europe)~ That word does not happen in our home but "nigga" pops up more than a little When in the south for a short time because of my husbands work took us there, my kids had to endure white kids calling them names as well as some blacks. Some whites called me a "nigger lover" ( out of the mouths of CHRISTIANS at a church we left) and some blacks said my husband was a "sell out to his race"..... I never could wrap my mind around such ignorance. My son listens to Rap and I hear slurs towards ethnicity and woman all the time in most of the music he listens to. It makes me wonder how their music ever was promoted in the beginning. In the past, I was told I was a disgrace to my heritage for marrying outside of the Tribe my dad and gramma are from. PEOPLE can be one of the most ignorant creatures on this planet. This is so sad when people cant get past skin color about ANYTHING!!!! It is not the skin tones that make us....it is the heart from which the words originate from in the beginning. God made ONE RACE~ As for this thread ..... what difference does it make what ethnicity this person is? NOTHING!!!! It does not make him more or less guilty or innocent!

[Godzchild]

As to a past issue with some land owners we were purchasing land from , when they found out my husband was black and I was not white, (doing prior business via mobile) they "pulled out" of the deal and tried to keep our deposit. We contacted Department of Justice and attained an Attorney. Al Sharpton contacted us and wanted to "represent" us. He is not all he seems to be....he is a pretty decent man. He said he would represent a white person if they asked. He is not as racist as he seems.

[Sasha]

In regard to the question of ethnicity, Latino or Hispanic isn't a question in and of itself in the work I do. I have to answer if they are white, then there is an option for Hispanic or non-Hispanic.

[OneEyedFatMan]

Ths is off the cuff... why does it matter?
Personally I hate racism, I despise it to the core of my being

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by OneEyedFatMan

Ths is off the cuff... why does it matter?
Personally I hate racism, I despise it to the core of my being

I do too, but will also add that I get tired of Blacks being called the victims, from years ago, when some are actually racist as well. I consider Honky and Cracker to be racist terminology.

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by OneEyedFatMan

Ths is off the cuff... why does it matter?
Personally I hate racism, I despise it to the core of my being

I don't think it matters, but to many blacks, it matters when one of 'their kind' is involved and the other party (ies) are not.

I mean no disrespect in saying that because I know that all black folks don't see it that way but I'm sure everyone on this forum is well aware of the reality this world partakes of.

[Titus2woman]

As a Latina who 'passes' as white (light skin, no accent, married to a white guy) I can promise you that racism is alive and kickin' in this country. It is not the 'problems of the past' that are at issue... it is the problems of today. Most people are, at their core, racist. And I've had a birds eye view of just how people who claim to not be racist act when they are with their 'own kind'.

Sadly enough, the church is the last bastion and stronghold of racism. It seems that only in church is it just OK to have no one in attendance of another color.

I think better markers of measuring your sincere acceptance of other races as equal are to ask yourself why you do not now or did not (if you did not) date across racial lines when you were single, why you attend a church that is at least 90% your own color, live in an area that is not racially mixed or send your kids to school with kids that all look like them... Because if you do these things, chances are you are part of the problem, not the solution and no amount of saying how you believe that people are equal will change that.