Quote (excellence @ Aug 10 2018 08:16am)
it is the evolution of george zimmerman scenario. he was deemed a “white hispanic” by the media in order to cause more chaos and sew more racial discord, all in the name of ratings and profits. nbc even doctored a tape to fuel more racially-divisive angles of the story.
if he was “george zambrano” that tale wouldnt have had nearly as much traction.
but since that rhetoric worked, now they can call ricardo gomez a “hispanic white supremacist”
I think its older than Zimmerman, its a UCR crime statistics trope
The vast majority of hate crimes in America are black on hispanic or hispanic on black, just like the vastly disproportionate (and majority) of crimes being committed by blacks and hispanics'
but the ambiguity surrounding race/ethnicity has allowed crime statistics to present this as white vs black, and the media runs with those numbers and the social media echos them around