“White Hispanic.” I almost choked on my plate of nachos when I heard that one. “White Hispanic” sounds eerily like the turn—of—the—last—century, Jim Crow-era definitions of race, which were so arbitrary they are almost laughable in the age of DNA testing to determine genealogical lines. There is nothing scientific about calling someone a “White Hispanic,” yet it has been the label du jour for the media in describing George Zimmerman, the man recently exonerated for killing Trayvon Martin.
