"will the press ever apologize for racist capitalization?"

By N.S.

"will the press ever apologize for racist capitalization?"

"during the George Floyd racial reckoning, most of the news media decided to mandates (sic) writing 'whites and Blacks' as a racist insult of whites. Will they stop?"

By Steve Sailer

jul 30

Preview

“in the new york times, centrist [sic] black linguist John McWhorter and centrist [sic] journalist David Leonhardt try to make sense of current race and ethnicity designations like 'Black and white' or 'Latinx' along with the brouhaha over cancelling teams named for American Indians.”

John McWhorter is no centrist. Back in 1997, he gave a public lecture at the school where he taught, asserting that black american street slang (aka "ebonics") was just as legitimate a "dialect" as Standard English, and in 2016, he asserted that blacks have a right to slaughter Whites. If that's "centrist," then the term, like just about all political language today, has no meaning.

Back in 1995, in my first expose on so-called ebonics, in Chronicles magazine, I argued that defenses of "ebonics" were inseparable from apologetics for racist, black violence.