re: Capitalization matters!

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We will use racial identifiers only if they are pertinent to the story,

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What a fricking joke. Let me show you a headline you’ll never see in this paper:

“Black man rapes white woman.”

Contrast with 50% of “news” stories today:

“White police officer mercilessly attacks peaceful Black protester” (not included in story is how peaceful protester resists attest, reaches for cops gun after throwing a Molotov cocktail.)

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We will use racial identifiers only if they are pertinent to the story, and we will seek to ask sources how they want to be named — African American, Black, Somali American, etc. — and honor that. We will not capitalize white; Black describes a shared experience in a way that white does not.

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This is racist as frick.

Imagine how racist this would sound if you looked back to a newspaper in 1920:

We will use racial identifiers only if they are pertinent to the story, and we will seek to ask sources how they want to be named — European American, White, German American, etc. — and honor that. We will not capitalize black; White describes a shared experience in a way that black does not.

Gonna be a lot of capitalization then in future police reports.

Only if it’s pertinent to the story.

Articles will be “Man assaults white man on street “

Doesn’t matter the race of the perpetrator

Of course you will see “Attack by white man on the street angered area residents “

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Star Tribune to capitalize Black as racial, cultural identifier

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Once they do that, they can never go back.

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Black folks went through a lot of shite in the American experience

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A lot of people went through a lot of shite in the American experience.

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Black describes a shared experience in a way that white does not.

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White people are definitely having a shared experience right now...having to deal with this dumb shite

The NEA has been trying to slip this by for years.

I guess the term African-American is done