\u201cMartin was black and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis must be in the AP stylebook somewhere, because that sentence, or some variation therof, is found in every single article about the case:\u00a0 Martin \u201cis\u201d black but Zimmerman only \u201cidentifies\u201d as Hispanic.\u00a0 Can you recall any other situation in which AP has played with racial identification vs. race as a fact in the news story?\u201d<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I\u2019ve come to a different conclusion.\u00a0 Hispanic, in the world of journalists, politicians, community organizers, etc., actually doesn\u2019t mean \u201ca person with family origins in a Spanish-speaking country\u201d but means \u201ca person who themselves or whose family immigrated from Mexico, or, maybe, through Mexico, from Central America.\u201d\u00a0 Hence, the official government definition admitting to immigration from other Latin American countries is a bit inconvenient.\u00a0 Can we at least give up on calling an Argentinian with German ancestry a \u201cHispanic\u201d?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
In any case, that explains why journalists are so reluctant to say that Zimmerman \u201cIS\u201d a Hispanic \u2014 his mother was from Peru, after all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So the other day I was peeved enough about the consistency of newspaper reporting on the ethnic\/racial characteristics of the victim and alleged perpetrator in the Zimmerman trial to gripe to Ann Althouse in an e-mail, thusly: \u201cMartin was black and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic\u201d \u201cThis must be in the AP stylebook somewhere, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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