# Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474 "2021-07-28T02:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1519
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/1519 "2021-08-14T21:18:01Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > He’s talking about the capitalization of Black, of course. Oh I see, thanks for the clarification. I’m guessing that octopus is not aware that [the debates about capitalizing ethnic designations for African-Americans go back about a century and a half](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/ap-capitalizing-black.html)? > [@](#): > > During a time when [all other racial and ethnic identifiers were written in uppercase](https://www.jstor.org/stable/274643?seq=1), there was a conscious push for newspapers to capitalize _negro_ . […] > > In the late 1890s, W.E.B DuBois announced that “eight million Americans are entitled to a capital letter.” By the mid-1920s, DuBois was at the helm of a letter-writing campaign demanding that book publishers and newspapers make the shift to capitalization. So the arguments over whether ethnic identifiers for people of African descent should be capitalized or not are hardly anything new. “Forced” by a “violent mob”, my ass. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474)._