Racism and the Zimmerman Family

Penigma

Racism is when people make negative or derogatory, instead of looking at people as individuals.  It is all about disparaging assumptions.  Sometimes this is directed at an entire race or gender, other times it is directed as a subset of people in a distinct group.
That is true of many of the assumptions and generalities expressed on the right and especially by some of the more rabid talking heads and bloggers. 

And now we see it expressed in the Zimmerman family, a continuation of the obvious racism of George Zimmerman's assumption that all black teens were criminals. His brother shares that bias, that prejudice, that ugly assumption about black teen-aged males, missing the key differences, the differences which are not obvious.

 Robert Zimmerman Jr.: "black teens are killers."