There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun.
It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined.
Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
Well, all I ask for is consistency. If "Black" is to be capitalized, "White" should be too, all men (and women) being equal and whatnot (though I suppose you could argue "Caucasian" is capitalized).
Still, I don't like politicization of colors and I actively want to defuse attempts to politicize the word "black". It's getting so bad that literally the color black is coming under attack - for example the python formatter "black"[0]
To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”
> There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color.
No, it's when referring to a racial identity group.
While the label for that group originates as a reference to the dark skin typical of the group, the capitalized term does not refer to, and does not have any necessary relation to, skin color.
3np|5 years ago
It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined.
Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
umvi|5 years ago
Still, I don't like politicization of colors and I actively want to defuse attempts to politicize the word "black". It's getting so bad that literally the color black is coming under attack - for example the python formatter "black"[0]
[0] https://github.com/psf/black/issues/1830
_pius|5 years ago
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
From the article:
To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”
dragonwriter|5 years ago
No, it's when referring to a racial identity group.
While the label for that group originates as a reference to the dark skin typical of the group, the capitalized term does not refer to, and does not have any necessary relation to, skin color.
selimthegrim|5 years ago
samstave|5 years ago
The Game Cartridge
The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
arthur_pryor|5 years ago
yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)
ku-man|5 years ago
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