They invented it to stir up racial tensions. The man is Hispanic. Nowhere in legal documents is he listed as being White. He has always been listed as Hispanic. Does the MSM refer to Barack Obama as being a 'White-African American'? No, of course not. Barack Obama considers himself an African American, and is listed as such on legal documents. Zimmerman has always referred to himself as being Hispanic. The MSM has simply lied again. It is what it is.
No they didn't.
"In the United States, a White Hispanic or White Latino[17] is a citizen or resident who is racially white and of Hispanic descent. White American, itself an official U.S. racial category, refers to people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa" who reside in the United States.[18]"
White Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zimmerman is a white Hispanic, MSM didn't make that up or the term.