The reason it became a racial issue to begin with was that Person A shot Person B with no witnesses. The police briefly interview Person A and take his word for it thats the way it went down with no further investigation planned. That should never happen regardless of who is what color BUT not one single ounce of my 268lbs believes for a New York second the police would have left it there if the victim was a white child, regardless even which color the shooter was.
Was Zimmerman racist? Don't know, don't care. The case deserves to be investigated from jump street. THAT is why it became a racial issue. It just caught fire from there because it was easy to believe a black kid in that area at night was up to no good. He was in the morgue THREE DAYS unidentified because police didn't walk the neighborhood to see if anyone knew him. If they had they would have found his father.