Like most things in the world, black and Black is not so black and white. There's a reason some people prefer to self-identify as capital B Black. Maybe look it

Like most things in the world, black and Black is not so black and white. There's a reason some people prefer to self-identify as capital B Black. Maybe look it up before dismissing it entirely. CJR shared some perspectives in the process of explaining an update to their style guide: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php A piece from The Atlantic that goes deep: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/time-to-capitalize-blackand-white/613159/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/time-to-ca... But also provides a good summary: >> 'A good reason to capitalize the racial designation “black,” then, is precisely that black, in this sense, is not a natural category but a social one—a collective identity—with a particular history. (“Race is psychology, not biology” is a formulation Du Bois once offered.) What’s more, the very label “black” plays a role in generating that identity.' I identify as a lot of things before I ever consider the pigment in my skin ("white as the driven snow,") but that's easy for me because it's the one thing about me that's never been under attack. I also really prefer not to associate myself with most people who make a huge deal about being capital W White. My various European lineages (and Cherokee) crushed under it are more interesting to me, and genealogical records for them are much easier to find than it often is for people who go with Black. Sometimes Black is all people have. I can trace most of the components of my particular white back thousands of years to specific people in specific villages. There's history in our histories that informs the way we identify.