Stylebook change: capitalize ‘black’ but not ‘white’ when referring to race

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The AP Stylebook is the standard for writing news articles, professional articles, and term papers. It addresses capitalization, punctuation, headlines, grammar, formatting, and so on. Apparently, it also influences the culture war.

On Friday, Juneteenth, the Associated Press announced on Twitter that the Stylebook will now require the word “Black” to be capitalized in news stories when used “in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense.”

“White” will not be capitalized.

Obviously, this is very divisive. Blacks and Whites should be equals, one isn’t superior to the other.

“Our discussions on style and language consider many points, including the need to be inclusive and respectful in our storytelling and the evolution of language. We believe this change serves those ends,” AP adds. “Our revisions come after more than two years of in-depth research and discussion with colleagues and respected thinkers from a diversity of backgrounds, both within and from outside the cooperative,” they wrote nonsensically.


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michmike497
michmike497
4 years ago

Treating people unequally in the name of equality is all the rage.

herbert r richmond
4 years ago

Creating discord between races by making one superior to another, done to punish and eventually make them slaves

Jean Harvey
Jean Harvey
4 years ago

I respect good and decent, hard working White people and Black people. Too bad the whites and blacks that are causing these recent problems cannot and do not want to realize they have been played/used buy the very people that don’t give a care about them. We need to stop-think-clearly look at the situation. Then Blacks and Whites ban together and stand up for all of us that stand to lose most everything we hold dear.