You’re almost 3 years late to the conversation. The Associated Press made this change in its writing style guide in June of 2020:
I don't think the question is which agenda-driven organization is responsible, but why.
And the tone of the question is more wtf than wanting a serious explanation.
I would suggest pushing back on journalists who try to manipulate the public's use of language. Not their job.
The article I linked on Page 1 explained why. Since it appears you didn’t bother to read the article, here are a few snippets for you:
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,” John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”
Daniszewski said the revisions aligned with long-standing identifiers such as Latino, Asian American and Native American.
“It’s something that people who are Black have been calling for for a long time.”
The Globe explained that the word has evolved from a description of a person’s skin color to signify a race and culture, and deserves the uppercase treatment much the way other ethnic terms do.
Having high incarceration keeps society safe. Just look at what woke DAs have done to cities: the New York subways are unsafe, Chicago's downtown has out of control crime now and felons with illegal guns just get a slap on the wrist, Baltimore has the highest murder rate of big cities in the nation, etc.
But this is all during a time of astronomically high comparative incarceration rates nation-wide. The political fiddling at the margins-- a strict DA here, and more liberal one there-- does zero to move the needle on the US's rate of incarceration compared to other places.
Unless you're suggesting that settled life would end in the US if the incarceration rate were reduced to international averages for developed countries, then the US incarceration rate is NOT making it any safer. It may even be doing the opposite, because most incarcerated people eventually get out, where they typically face all kinds of barriers to becoming regular citizens again-- barriers that are very likely to encourage recidivism.
What's that they say about the definition of insanity...?
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