Steve Sailer notes that "he looked quite mestizo in the notorious orange shirt photo" but that the "skinnier, shaven-headed, suited Zimmerman look[s] a bit like the President" —
Why the most hated man in America looks a little like Obama.
He quotes an MSM report as saying that "[t]he 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background" and "was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather - the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him." Alright, he'd be black under the
one-drop rule, or more precisely an
octoroon. "So," clarfies Mr. Sailer, "he's not just a mestizo, he's a 'pardo,' like Hugo Chavez calls himself."
The article also notes that he "was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate" and mentions his "maternal grandmother, Cristina, who had lived with the Zimmermans since 1978, worked as a babysitter for years during Zimmerman's childhood. For several years she cared for two African-American girls who ate their meals at the Zimmerman house and went back and forth to school each day with the Zimmerman children."
Also of interest is that "Zimmerman served as an altar boy at All Saints from age 7 to 17" and, according to a friend, not "the type where, you know, 'I'm being forced to do this,' and a dragging-his-feet Catholic." We also learn that he "grew up bilingual, and by age 10 he was often called to the Haydon Elementary School principal's office to act as a translator between administrators and immigrant parents." And finally, for what it's worth, "Zimmerman partnered with an African-American friend and opened up an Allstate insurance satellite office."
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