# Why capitalize "Black"?

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**Created:** [January 1, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-capitalize-black/977455 "2023-01-01T09:50:11Z")\
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> [@Smapti](#):
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> I dislike “White”. It implies that whiteness is a cultural identity unto itself and it reeks of white supremacist sentiments which I absolutely do not want to be associated with.

As I said in a [previous thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-black-being-the-new-black/919099/23), “it seems to me that capitalizing Black but not white reinforces the idea that white is the default—that Black people are a specific subgroup of people but white people are not; they’re just normal people.”

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