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To: Graybeard58

“The word “black” is not capitalized unless it is the first word of a sentence or is someones name, It’s a color, an adjective. Many liberal writers capitalize it, please don’t fall into their liberal grammatical garbage.”

Good point! and also, black is not a race, it is a color. The race is Negro, adjective form is Negroid.


83 posted on 04/28/2014 2:14:48 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: 2harddrive; Graybeard58
“The word “black” is not capitalized unless it is the first word of a sentence or is someones name, It’s a color, an adjective. Many liberal writers capitalize it, please don’t fall into their liberal grammatical garbage.”

Good point! and also, black is not a race, it is a color. The race is Negro, adjective form is Negroid.

I submit to both of you for historical context this observation. Negro is not a race and was not considered a race at the turn of the century in the 1900's. Negro and the use of the word as such is a pretty modern evolution.

Although in considering both your statements I do find it amazing to ponder how the Left has successfully removed from the American Negro his historical heritage as a Bushman or Bantu. Even the use of the term African-American, as favored today, is inaccurate and reflects the loss of heritage.

Professor Jerome Dowd, a Southern white man, declares that "to speak of all negroes in Africa as one race having common characteristics, is as misleading and is as unscientific as if we should consider all Europeans and Americans as of one race and attribute to all of them the same traits."

86 posted on 04/29/2014 3:53:13 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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