IT’S BLACK AND WHITE
OR, Black and white
A QUESTION
IT’S BLACK AND WHITE
The following is just an observation on usage; it has nothing to do with race (unless it does!) so don’t bother sending me hate mail (from whichever side you might be on).
In newspapers (remember them?), magazines, or on the Internet, white males are referred to as white, when referring to a man in an anecdote, incident, or story.
Black males are referred to as Black.
(The first ‘Black’ word in the paragraph above takes capital because it is the first word in the sentence.)
If a man in a story was white, it would read, “He was a white male.”
If he was black it would read, “He was a Black male.
Is there any reason for this capitalization for one color of a person and not the other?
Is it a journalistic thing or cultural, or sociological, or racial, or …is it used to show respect for ‘black (or brown) people because we disrespected them for so long?
Does anyone know?
A QUESTION.
IT’S BLACK AND WHITE
The following is just an observation on usage; it has nothing to do with race (unless it does!) so don’t bother sending…