red sox 777 posted...
This is totally false and you know it. Someone who's skin is brown and speaks spanish is considered by most people to be hispanic, latino, or just mexican literally 100% of the time.
Okay, fine, by recently I meant before.....say, 1995. Maybe 2000. But who has still read the New York Times since the Internet got going anyway?
I'm happy with "white-hispanic" because in the interests of linguistic continuity, I'd prefer people to use the term that's been used here for 500 years rather than the one that's only gained traction in the last 20. "White-hispanic" reminds people that most Hispanics are white, something that has been forgotten in America at astonishing speed.
And like I said, I am refering to cases in articles of the major media. Have you ever read a case of someone being referred to as a white-hispanic before Zimmerman?
I am looking for examples because I have never once seen it before. And "major-media" means CBS, NBC, ABC, and even the major internet media such as yahoo.
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