Leonard Pitts explains to us why George Zimmerman is white.

In the U.S., privilege is about the color white

I'm here to explain why George Zimmerman is white.


This seems necessary, given the confusion and anger with which some readers responded to my use of that word last week in this space to describe the man who killed an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin last month in Sanford, Fla. One person wrote: "Mr. Zimmerman was Hispanic not White plez do your homework before writing your column!!!!"


But it is they who are wrong. There are two reasons. The short one is this:


"Hispanic" is not a race, but an ethnicity. As the U.S. Census Bureau puts it in its 2010 Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin, "People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be any race."


The long reason begins with an understanding that the word in question -- race -- is a term both meaningful and yet profoundly meaningless. It is meaningful in the sense that it provides a tool for tribalism and a means by which to organize our biases, fears, observations, social challenges and sundry cultural products. It is meaningless in the sense that, well ... it has no meaning, that there exists no definition of "black" or "white" that carries any degree of scientific precision.

Read the rest of Pitts's vomit splattered on paper here.

This vomit splattered on paper was actually published in my city's newspaper a few days ago. I don't think I have ever been as motivated to write in to the paper in reply. I was really just venting, but it actually ended up getting published today.

To me, Leonard Pitts highlights the entire left wing in the above article. No matter what the situation, facts, and circumstances, the world will always be looked at through the lens of race. The fact is, it doesn't matter what race George Zimmerman is. If he had been any other color, other than black of course, he would be looked at as a white man. This, while Leonard Pitts, Bobby Rush, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, Hank Johnson, and Barack Obama flat out ignore the epidemic of black on black crime in this country. Oh and black on white crime? That doesn't exist.

This Pitts is the typical race baiter. Just like Jesse and Al, Pitts makes his living off of racial division. Without it, he would be a broken salesman with nothing left to peddle.