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.
We also capitalize the Native in Native American even though it’s just an adjective.
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”)
I know one word I’ll never call them, capital or not. It’s also why I can’t sing along with Busta Rhymes songs, if I’m being honest.
I know, I am not very comfortable.
Some of my favorite media has a lot of n words in it, like Django unchained. You’ll catch me dead before I ever say that word.
black people don’t but Black people do
