It’s not just the one detail. They also racialized the discussion of the impact and, egads, a cardinal sin, they mentioned the “Gulf of Mexico” and made their mention of the governor’s decision a partisan jab by not including the “one detail.”
Beverly Wright has done yeoman's work for years on a number of good causes and quoting her is not merely racializng the discussion.
It would be more confusing to call it the Gulf of America, everyone still knows it as the Gulf of Mexico.