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.
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.
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.
Never seen that anywhere before. I don’t think your ‘we’ is the same as our ‘we.’
We also capitalize the Native in Native American even though it’s just an adjective.
TIL. Thank you.
Interesting, never heard that with respect to Deaf or whatever.
I agree, I would use a capital when writing about “the Black community”. Otherwise it would be lowercase (“a black person/a white person”)
Depends where you are
It’s common for Australian Aboriginals to call their community Blak