5 Black police officers charged over death of Tyre Nichols

Potential-Monke

Why do 'Merican media say Black and White with capital letters?

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189312#Comment_120189312

The official rules, as set by the gods of journalism, AP, say that you should never capitalize "white" but "black" should be capitalized.

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. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.

This is why there's so little trust in the media. As they've to come up with nonsensical excuses as to why "black" should be capitalized yet "white" shouldn't. This is a supposedly well regard new source, essentially openly saying that they are activists with biases.

Overheal

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Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191740#Comment_120191740

You'll find white capitalised these days in things like White Supremacy, and Whiteness...

Potential-Monke

Now that ye mention it, yes, it mentions Black for every black victim, but White for every white offender... Any wishes I ever had to move/live/holiday in 'Merica is out the window. Country is batshyte crazy now. They were bag of cats crazy, manageable, but they're gone further now.

archermoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191740#Comment_120191740

In the US the vast majority of the Black population can trace their ancestors back to people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery. In most cases they have no idea what country those ancestors come from. So the only ethnicity they have available to them is as being Black. White people on the other hand in general DO know where their ancestors came from. They aren't left with only the colour of their skin to define their ethnicity. White people in the US regularly talk about themselves saying that they're Irish, or Polish, or Russian, etc. Or frequently a combination of two or more. White isn't a de facto ethnicity. In general in the US when someone does talk about themselves as being white, it is because they're a White Supremacist.

THAT's why the AP rules say to capitalise Black, but not white. Because you capitalise ethnicities, but not colours.

archermoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120194048#Comment_120194048

In general in the US a significant percentage of the population will assume that any given criminal is a POC and that any given victim is white. So the news in general only mentions it when that expectation isn't the case.

Sudden Valley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120195598#Comment_120195598

Whiteness is pretty undefined in ethnicity too- like for some in the past Slavs and Italians were not considered "White". Its a nothing burger.

Potential-Monke

Treat black and white differently. Got it.

hawley

The cops who called for medical assistance  “withheld” information from responding EMTs, the head of the union representing most of the Memphis fire department said.

In a letter to city councilmembers, President of the Memphis Fire Fighters Association Thomas Malone said the three fired EMTs weren’t given the information they needed to adequately respond to the call for medical help.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/02/13/police-in-tyre-nichols-death-withheld-information-from-fired-emts-union/amp/

This might lead to those cops receiving even longer sentences. They were trying to cover their own backs, but put the victim in even greater danger. A lot of rumors flying about the place at the moment.