Late last month, a headline writer for McClatchy DC was not alone in getting caught in a linguistic, oxymoronic knot when they announced, "Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants." While the word minority has been a catchall to describe people of any race or ethnicity other than white, it also means, per Dictionary.com, "1. the smaller part […]
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:08PM on July 20, 2016