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I Don’t Think Merely Capitalizing Black Is Showing Enough Obeisance

By Steve Sailer

07/25/2020

Earlier: The New Childishness: “Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)”

Rather than merely capitalizing the word “Black,” I think the prestige press should take a lesson from Broadway musicals like Oklahoma!, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver!, and Mamma Mia! and always print the word in italics with an exclamation point:

For example, from The New York Times in the bad old disrespectful days of 2019 when blacks were treated equally with whites in terms of capitalization:

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America.
By Trymaine Lee
AUG. 14, 2019

In more reverential 2020, that would be:

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates Black and white America.

But in 2021:

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates Black! and white America.

[Comment at Unz.com]

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