[Justin26841]

It is racism. It is racism when a white person holds the door for you because it is condescension. It is racism when a white person forgets to hold the door for you because it belies a seething contempt. But the most vile, despicable indicator of whether a white person is a rabid racist is if he or she openly expresses disagreement with a white liberal. there are those who would say that white people have largeley reformed themselves (they’re racists), when in fact the truth is that white americans today are so frothing at the mouth racist that you can hardly tell it by what they say think or do both in and out of the presence of black peeople. one needs new strategies to detect this new covert racism. the most effective of these is to ‘imagine’ racist motives behind any behavior you see of whites, for instance: if you see a white person spit out some gum on the sidewalk, use your ‘imagination’. guage the ethnicity of the surrounding neighborhood. is it non-white? there’s your answer. he was defiling the neighborhood. is the neighborhood white? then it was meant as a personal disrespect to you, essentially saying ‘this neighborhood is ‘whites only’.

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Name : Justin26841, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[Laura26057]

All of the others (Caucasians, Latinos, Asians, and Mid-Easterners) are based on locations (Caucasus, Latin America, Asia, Middle East), which are capitalized, while black is a color. When talking about whites, the ‘w’ would not be capitalized, either.

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Name : Laura26057, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : Baltimore, State : MD, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Michael-S20640]

Perhaps the use of ‘Black’ as a racial group hasn’t been fully recognized by the dictionary-producing community (although I’m not sure why they wouldn’t have) and thus comes up on spell checks suggesting ‘black’ as a correct spelling.

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[David Rogers]

Capitalizing ‘black’ would be like changing ‘Korean’ to ‘Yellow’ or ‘Mexican’ to ‘Brown.’ Instead of capitalizing ‘black,’ they capitalize ‘African American.’

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Name : David Rogers, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Nigerian, I don't consider myself black, Religion : Pentecostal, Age : 19, City : Upland, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper class, 

[Dominique]

I am opposed to refering to people as colors. At the same time, I cannot help doing it myself at times, because it seems to be society that decides, not me. However, in answer to your question, perhaps black isn’t capitalized because it IS a color. I’ve seen many times where ‘white’ wasn’t capitalized, either. Come on – these are colors of crayons we are talking about, not people. In my opinion, I think we need to step away from putting each other inside boxes. Just think: In a few years when we are a conglomerate of ethnicities, what will we be called? What ‘color’ will we be?

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Name : Dominique, Gender : F, Age : 20, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

[Dan31685]

It’s because black is not a race but a racial designation. However, if you feel slighted, file a lawsuit. I’m sure it will be changed to suit your preference in the PC US of A.

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[Marie]

Personally, I think if one is going to use the words ‘black’ or ‘white’ to describe a person, they SHOULD be ‘Black’ or ‘White.’ There is no other ethnicity, that I can recall, who is commonly described by ‘skin’ tone. And not all Blacks are African-American, are they? What is a Black who was born in England called? Anglo-African? Or in China? African-Asian? Honestly, I’m curious. Is anyone who is Black and not born in Africa grouped into the African-American classification? But in the US it seems to be a toss-up between black and African-American as to what one prefers to be called. Therefore, Black would seem appropriate, IMO. And it would just seem like the natural progression from using Black to using White. It’s not like these words really describe skin color anyway. Everyone on this planet is some shade of brown.

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Name : Marie, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 36, City : Jeffersonville, State : IN, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Betty]

Names like ‘Caucasian’ and ‘Asian’ come from the proper names of places. ‘Black’ and ‘white’ aren’t derived from proper names; they come from adjectives. It’s not rooted in racism at all.

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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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