Why is Black spelled with a capital 'B' and white lowercase? It's divisive (vs, world)

[Suburban_Guy]

I think this topic was touched upon on this very forum before.

Myself, I believe in equality for all. That's why I refuse to toe the 'woke' line, and I do NOT capitalize black OR white (or any other racial designation for that matter, for the most part).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-black...140015295.html

Have you noticed that most mainstream media outlets capitalize the “B” in “Black” when writing about Black people? Have you noticed the “w” in “white” doesn’t receive the same treatment?

It’s a well-intended but confusing practice that might be doing more harm than good.

The decision from the editors of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which sets the standard for the language of journalism, came at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

[Manigault]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

I think this topic was touched upon on this very forum before.

Then why must you beat this particular dead horse?

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Myself, I believe in equality for all. That's why I refuse to toe the 'woke' line, and I do NOT capitalize black OR white (or any other racial designation for that matter, for the most part).

The alternative companion to 'black'; is 'Caucasian', which is capitalized.

You never read 'Ebony'? Johnson Publishing always capitalized 'Black' and 'White'.

Next you'll be asking how referring to something as 'bad' could be a compliment.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Manigault

Then why must you beat this particular dead horse?


The alternative companion to 'black'; is 'Caucasian', which is capitalized.

You never read 'Ebony'? Johnson Publishing always capitalized 'Black' and 'White'.

Next you'll be asking how referring to something as 'bad' could be a compliment.

The racial designation that corresponds to black is white.

The ones that correspond to Caucasoid are Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid and Capoid.

[camaro69]

Because we are living in a strictly PC/woke world.

Right now Black in good, while white is bad.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Manigault

Then why must you beat this particular dead horse?

It shows past (and present) media pandering and virtue signaling.

Glad I could help.

[Seguinite]

Originally Posted by momonkey

The racial designation that corresponds to black is white.

The ones that correspond to Caucasoid are Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid and Capoid.

And folks will say you're just trying to confuse the issue.

It's 'black' lowercase for me.

[djmilf]

The names of nations, countries, ethnic groups, and cultures are proper nouns. By grammatical rules, proper nouns are capitalized.

It's France, not france. It's French, not french.

It's the Uighur people, not the uighur people. It's the Hmong people, not the hmong people.

'My grandparents are English and German and Hungarian and Irish', not 'my grandparents are english and german and hungarian and irish'.

It's white, not White - it recognizes a group of people whose commonality is limited to a certain range of skin pigmentation.

It's Italian Americans vs tall Americans. Ethnicity vs single attribute.

It's Black, not black - it recognizes a distinct culture.

[Corrie22]

go back to using them as adjectives not nouns

[2kroadking]

Is Grumpy Old White Man grammatically correct? It recognizes what some believe to be a distinct culture.

[Cape Cod Todd]

I capitalize both Black and White here on CD for emphasis and out of respect for those races.



I think you are right OP about the media capitalizing the words or not but when they are talking about a Black criminal it is often a lower case black but when they are talking about White Supremacy what they are really emphasizing is WHITE !