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It is indeed. I'm black and when I first saw people doing that shit I was like... What is this nonsense.

It went from pretty being a meme to being a part of "Black support" which is worthless virtue signalling at best, and devalues actual black support at worse.

This is in the AP style guide as of summer 2020 so it should at least not be surprising.

Is this the white privilege thing I was hearing about?

To be honest yes the AP being racist is surprising.

It was surprising in summer of 2020. By now no longer.

Its an openly racist style guide which is why some people are surprised.

93% of blacks in America were killed by other blacks

Don't you know that's the only Proper way (tm), straight from our press association!

Geez, you gotta wonder if the whole world went blind if it might not be a better place.

It absolutely would be, humanity would die off in just a few weeks.