The following article, AP Stylebook: Black Must Now Be Capitalized When Writing About Race, Not Sure About white, was first published on Flag And Cross.
Can reparations for slavery really be that far behind, considering the way things are going? Is it possible than future generations will have to bear the burden of even higher theft taxation for a crime they didn’t commit?
Facepalm.
Check this out, via The Guardian:
The Associated Press has changed its influential writing style guide to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.
The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” said John Daniszewski, AP’s vice-president of standards. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”
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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, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa.
— APStylebook (@APStylebook) June 19, 2020
We also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.
— APStylebook (@APStylebook) June 19, 2020
As a global news organization, we are continuing to discuss within the U.S. and internationally whether to capitalize the term white. Considerations are many and include any implications that doing so might have outside the United States. We will have a decision within a month.
— APStylebook (@APStylebook) June 19, 2020
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***WARNING*** Strong Language
This is what NYPD cops are enduring daily.
Yet when they use appropriate force, they’re prosecuted. pic.twitter.com/N3noMmpT9r
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 9, 2020
He touched the cop.
It’s actually arrestable in NYC to threaten to beat someone as he did to multiple cops.
Totally justified arrest.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 9, 2020
From TDW:
Like many of her fellow celebrities, pop icon Madonna has responded publicly to the tragic death of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African American man who died on while being forcefully subdued by Minneapolis police and whose death has sparked widespread outrage and violent riots throughout the city.
In a social media post, Madonna responded to the tragedy by declaring “f*** the police!” and calling for extreme gun control.
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I pray to GOD it does one day. Until then—Fuck The Police! Yea I said it. Im not interested in being PC. Im interested in Justice. @shaunking #georgefloyd #justice #guncontrolContinue reading: AP Stylebook: Black Must Now Be Capitalized When Writing About Race, Not Sure About white ...
Not in this life.