I was really confused when I read this comment. Because to my recollection, capitalizing Black was something that went back as far as the civil rights movement.

I was really confused when I read this comment. Because to my recollection, capitalizing Black was something that went back as far as the civil rights movement. I think I remember it being a thing that Malcolm X emphasized as a matter of getting all people who had black skin and were oppressed, to identify with a common racial and cultural heritage. At the time there was a dichotomy between Malcom X and MLK Jr. because MLK was okay with the word negro and Malcolm X wanted that to fall out of use. So wait that is offensive/wrongthink now? What is the rationale? Or am I misremembering the history? Happy to be corrected if so. This is a big part of my issue with whatever Internet race/gender/identity outrage is dujour, people will go straight for the throat and start accusing each other of being literal Nazis over essentially semantics that are going to change every generation anyawy. I'm all for civil rights and equality under the law and happily show up to actual protests over those things, but I think a lot of this semantic stuff is cared about mostly by people who went to a fancy college and are trying to virtue signal.