{"id":7075,"date":"2013-07-12T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T09:15:17","slug":"cnn-uses-racial-tags-for-zimmerman-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7075","title":{"rendered":"CNN uses racial tags for Zimmerman trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Zimmerman, not black enough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Wednesday, CNN once again referred to Hispanic defendant George Zimmerman as a \u201cwhite Hispanic who is on trial for last year\u2019s shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Sanford city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The term \u201cwhite Hispanic\u201d was coined by the media after outlets wrongly labeled Zimmerman white; Zimmerman\u2019s father is white, and his mother is Hispanic.<\/p>\n

On March 8, 2012, the Associated Press wrote, \u201cThe neighborhood watch leader is white.\u201d When it came out that he was not, media outlets including CNN began labeling Zimmerman a \u201cwhite Hispanic\u201d in order to maintain the false narrative that the killing was race-based.<\/p>\n

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CNN has biased its case against Zimmerman before. During the original case controversy, CNN isolated audio that made it sound as if Zimmerman used a racial slur about \u201cf—ing c\u2014ns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mediaite repeated that falsehood.<\/p>\n

CNN called legal expert Jeffrey Toobin, who said that the tape was \u201cextremely significant\u201d and could lead to hate crimes prosecution.<\/p>\n

When the tape was clarified, however, it turns out that Zimmerman had said it was \u201cf—ing cold.\u201d – Breitbart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, CNN once again referred to Hispanic defendant George Zimmerman as a \u201cwhite Hispanic who is on trial for last year\u2019s shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Sanford city.\u201d The term \u201cwhite Hispanic\u201d was coined by the media after outlets wrongly labeled Zimmerman white; Zimmerman\u2019s father is white, and his mother … Continue reading “CNN uses racial tags for Zimmerman trial”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1102,2305,3704],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-cnn","tag-racial-stereotypes","tag-zimmerman"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/zimmermanwhite.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}