I remember a similar misunderstanding when a British newspaper referred in a story to a “black taxi driver,” and was harshly criticized for what seemed like an irrelevant racial insertion into the story. They paper responded that it was the taxi that was black (i.e., regular/licensed, as opposed to a minicab, the then equivalent of an Uber), not the driver.
I remember a similar misunderstanding when a British newspaper referred in a story to a “black taxi driver,” and was harshly criticized for what seemed like an irrelevant racial insertion into the story. They paper responded that it was the taxi that was black (i.e., regular/licensed, as opposed to a minicab, the then equivalent of an Uber), not the driver.