Is it right to capitlize the B in Black?

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It's perfectly OK to be called a white cunt by a black twat.

Its the pointing out the injustice in one side getting more offended than the other where the problem starts.
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Oh, Woe is me...
somebody called me names
somebody used that word
somebody hates somebody i don't, and the same the other way 'round

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I was always confused. There’s a famous team All Blacks. At least famous enough to have their own shirts, and merchandise.

I saw them on TV once. None of them looked black.

It’s also trendy to have Hispanics say their name with an accent. How soon before the other races start saying their names in fake accents, too?

Then the western world can start sounding like the UN.

Especially those Irish who haven’t stepped a foot in Ireland... for generations.

How many races did I insult with this post?
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'Black', when referring to a person is an adjective. Last time I was at school. adjectives were not capitalised unless they were the first word of the sentence, which of course is a different type of grammar altogether.
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xandreu wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:32 am 'Black', when referring to a person is an adjective. Last time I was at school. adjectives were not capitalised unless they were the first word of the sentence, which of course is a different type of grammar altogether.
AS I already posted on page two of this thread concerning the article written by Baugh:

According to Baugh, Black is the term preferred by most Black Americans. As a proper noun, like Negro (Spanish for 'black') or African American, it should be capitalized. The claim that black is a color word requiring lowercase makes meaning the major criterion for determining upper versus lower case. However, capitalization is determined by whether a term is a proper noun or not. Surely Black is synonymous with Negro, just as White is synonymous with Caucasian. Either they are all proper nouns or none of them is. Like White, Black is not a color term. If it were, such locutions as light-skinned Black person and dark-skinned White person would make no sense. Furthermore, when black is a color term and part of a proper name, as in Black Angus, it is nonetheless capitalized. And one would not think of using the color-word argument to downcase Mr. Black or Ms. White. The failure to capitalize Black when it is synonymous with African American is a matter of unintended racism, to put the best possible face on it.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:21 am I was always confused. There’s a famous team All Blacks. At least famous enough to have their own shirts, and merchandise.

I saw them on TV once. None of them looked black.

It’s also trendy to have Hispanics say their name with an accent. How soon before the other races start saying their names in fake accents, too?

Then the western world can start sounding like the UN.

Especially those Irish who haven’t stepped a foot in Ireland... for generations.

How many races did I insult with this post?
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Sat Nov 14, 2020 1:16 pm Black Lungs Matter!

i reckon
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Re: Is it right to capitlize the B in Black?

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Shades of apartheid Nazi policies

Whites only, no Blacks

As a group or defining noun it is capitalized, as a color, obviously not

'white people', vs. 'Whites'

How long before those in between start pushing

The Crayola society

So many more important issues in the world
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