by Robert Bridge, Strategic Culture:
In the blistering summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter marauders were cutting a billion-dollar swath of destruction across urban America, editorial departments of the major news publications decided this was the perfect time to update their style guides by capitalizing ‘Black’ while retaining the lowercase for ‘whites.’
Now, American consumers of mass media are forced to swallow news reports like this one from The Hill: “As breast cancer deaths decline in America, racial disparities persist in the mortality rates between Black and white women. Those rates remain 40 percent higher for Black women, who are also more likely than white women to be diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50…”