[MayflowerMadam]

Why are you capitalizing “black”? Have you gone to the dark side?

[Az Joe]

Names of racial and ethnic groups are treated as proper nouns, which means they are capitalized (e.g., African American, Asian American, Black, European American, First Nations, Hispanic, Native American, Latinx, White).

dumb ass

[BipolarBob]

He posts like a Vox or The Daily Beast writer would except I didn’t see any grammatical errors..

[Rockingham]

Every now and then, an old corporate style guide that I was bound to adhere to kicks in, as does deference in email exchanges with a Black/black friend now passed who, in a roundabout way, saved my life on a medical issue.

As a boy, Jim saw an uncle lynched when he was a boy. He was smart enough and hard working enough to get a chemistry degree from the University of Alabama in the early 1960s and a later doctorate in Urban Studies at Yale. As a Nixon administration appointee in Connecticut, the Klan burned a cross on his lawn.

When such a friend preferred to be referred to as Black, I deferred.