[reader5000]

https://apnews.com/article/9105661462

[eznzt]

>AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black

Ironically, pretending all blacks come from the same ethnic or cultural background is a very ignorant (and racist) thing to do.

[eplanit]

The AP is proving that journalism is dead.

[monoideism]

So if they don't capitalize "white", because that's what white supremacists do, what does that say about capitalizing "black"?

A good number of the people pushing the "Black" spelling are openly Afrocentric, or profess to be.

[ihsw]

That is asinine.

[nailer]

OK so the latter. This is racist against both white people that somehow don't deserve capitalisation based on their skin color and black people in the US who don't share the limited concept of black the AP uses.