This moment, this movement, Black Lives Matter has achieved.

It's changing so many elements of American life, the mascots, the police, the monuments,

but it's also changing our language.

And some of those changes are a lot more complicated and even confusing than say no more Confederate

flags at NASCAR.

Today, we're going to dig into how language is evolving right now and try and figure out

how permanent some of these changes might be.

I'm talking about capitalizing the B in Black or the acronym BIPOC that you might be seeing

a lot more lately.

I'm talking about Karen.

It's easy to pronounce.

It's five letters.

To talk about what's going on with Karen, we found a Karen.

My name is Karen Atiyah.

She's an opinion writer at the Washington Post.

My mom has spoken about how she knew exactly what she was doing when she named me Karen.

She was just like, I wanted you to have an easier life with the sort of privilege of being

a Karen.

Up until recently, being named Karen had been a gift.

I'm Black.

My parents are immigrants actually from Ghana.

And the part that was sort of amusing to me about all of this was like, my parents chose

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