[jerrycruncher]

It's a very recent development in the language; one of the ripples that radiated out from the George Floyd protests.

The NY Times hosted a piece that explains the reasoning behind it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

[eplanit]

"development in language"? That's a very kind phrasing for a trend for activist-journalists to further proclaim their woke-ness in their writing.

[gedy]

> It's a very recent development in the language

Minor quibble, but political opinion, not "language".