Conor Friedersdorf on collard greens, racial identity, and clumsy attempts to aggregate attitudes displayed via social media:

I often see journalists and activists attributing positions to “African Americans” or “black people” or “people of color,” as if such a consensus exists. Often, the view in question isn’t unique to a race so much as an ideology, an activist movement, or a small subset of black people who are treated as stand-ins for the whole community.

Social media might simply be too difficult for some journalists.