I’ll write it however everyone wants, but I sort of thought it was some idea from the New York Times and not necessarily what the black community wants per se.
One guy I know likes to be called Steve
Who are you?
How do we know each other?What’s his name?
Hold on, let me ask the black hivemind.
We are the Blarg. Resistance is futile.
Black*
Bless your heart.
Black hive mind
Am black. Doesn’t matter so long as it’s consistent (i.e. black and white or Black and White).
Funny you say that, because the generally accepted style is Black and white. Here’s Microsoft’s style guide for another example.
Generally speaking, capital “W” White tends to have supremacist overtones in print.
How do you feel about the 2001 game “Black & White” by Lionhead Studios?
I just only seem to think it came from some idea from the NY Times, and I don’t think anyone says White, so it just seems, off kilter I guess I’d say. Of course I will say whatever is proper, but it’s just, odd.
I’m a white guy, but that seems weird to me. We capitalize a country or origin (e.g., English, African), but not a description. We don’t capitalize “redhead” or “tall.”
We do capitalise community names though - like deaf vs Deaf.
This is the same, it’s not being used as a description of how someone looks, but to what community they belong.
We also capitalize the Native in Native American even though it’s just an adjective.
TIL. Thank you.
I agree, I would use a capital when writing about “the Black community”. Otherwise it would be lowercase (“a black person/a white person”)
Never seen that anywhere before. I don’t think your ‘we’ is the same as our ‘we.’
Interesting, never heard that with respect to Deaf or whatever.
Depends where you are
It’s common for Australian Aboriginals to call their community Blak
some do, some don’t
