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PBS refers to George Zimmerman as ‘White’

April 11, 2012

The mainstream media just will not give up in their efforts to fabricate racial motivations in the Trayvon Martin case, even when none likely existed.
After media organizations were called out for initially–and falsely–“reporting” that George Zimmerman was white–Zimmerman is half-Hispanic and identifies as a Hispanic–the mainstream media started to refer to Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic,” even though that term has rarely been used to describe people who are partly of Hispanic descent.
On Monday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Newshour,” Gwen Ifill simply–and dishonestly–referred to Zimmerman as “white,” trying to impose the false media narrative that Zimmerman was a “white” guy who racially profiled and shot an innocent black teenager in cold blood.
Here is how Ifill described what happened on the night Martin was shot:
“Martin, who was black, was on his way to a convenience store in a mostly white gated community when George Zimmerman, who is white, shot and killed him after a disputed altercation.”
By erroneously describing the condominium complex where Martin was shot as a “mostly white gated community,” Ifill makes Zimmerman, whom she falsely described as “white,” seem more privileged than he is.
The condos in Zimmerman’s community sell for about $120,000, hardly making that complex anything close to the “gated communities” in wealthy enclaves like Bel Air or Beverly Hills, California.
Ifill then went on to note that, “Martin, who was carrying only candy and a soft drink, was discovered by police lying face down in the grass. Zimmerman was briefly taken into custody, but has not been arrested.”