[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by driveway

Not true at all. He said both of the following: "He looks black." "... he's a black male."

http://www.documentcloud.org/documen...zimmerman.html

According to the document you linked, the first time race is brought up is here:

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.

When directly asked, Zimmerman responded with his thought on the race, not before. On the tape, Zimmerman sounded unsure about the race of Martin. Next, after Martin starts to approach him, Zimmerman now confirms Martin is black by saying:

Zimmerman: Yeah, now he's coming towards me.
Dispatcher: OK.
Zimmerman: He's got his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male.

So the only two times in that call that Zimmerman makes reference to race is once when directly asked, he gave what he thought the race was, and then once he was certain of the race, he confirmed it to the dispatcher. Context is important.

I have taken hundreds of calls where people aren't sure of the race, or change it later in the call. Here in Calgary, an easy mixup of race is Native/Asian. Police will always ask race as one of the first person descriptors as well, so the dispatcher wasn't out of line asking.