Is Black Voices Banned From Capitalizing the Word “Black” in Reference to Black People?
Black Voices is one of the many “plantation blogs” owned and operated by corporate entities. The other plantation blogs are The Grio, The Root and there are some more but I can’t remember. Now, what’s funny about Black Voices is they are trying to accuse others of being racist or biased towards Blacks, but Black Voices cannot even capitalize the word “Black” in reference to our people:
So what’s Black Voices problem with referencing the people they supposed to represent with the word “Black” capitalized? Every Black blogger I know of who run their own blog and unchecked use “Black” with the capitalized version so what’s Black Voices excuse? Are they going to tell us this is “King’s English” or some crap about proper grammar or something like that?
I mean, if black Voices supposed to be a Black-orientated web site, then why can’t they capitalize the word “Black” and that is a valid question we African-Americans should be asking.
Black people don’t OWN “Black” Voices.
There are African-Americans who read Black Voices and is not “keen” or “smart” enough to pick up these kind of data clues yet they read Black Voices as “authority media” on everything Black.
I was thinking about this….a “Black identity” web site that claim to cover Blacks, but play down the identity as “black” in their content.
Here is the rub which is the use of grammar – if you are going to use “Black” in the terms of identity, then “Black” should be capitalize! So Black Voices editorial staff should know this fact so it is on them to explain why they are using “black” in the lower case form.
I kinda prefer African-American even though my roots are more complex than that…. Simply because I associate black with the color ‘black’. For writers regardless of their education, I think it is suitable to use ‘Black’ when speaking of the people to the ‘black’ because it just seems like the writer is addressing the color of the person oppose to the people as a whole.
Black Voices is not “Black” owned and never was. Before Huffington Post/AOL took over some other white media outfit ran that sham. I think the fact that they low-key diminish Black folks and promote all that silly entertainment/scared negro mess speaks volumes about all of the so-called liberal media. They have utterly no interest in elevating Black folks, they just want to appear to be a more benevolent master. Btw, I’m sure you can image that the same people who think that mess is the authority on Blackness also love Tyler Perry and think BET is Black owned.
Btw, what kind of idiot pays any attention to anything Rick Santorum says? Seriously, other than somebody just looking to get all emotional, who pays any attention to this minor politician who will be nothing but a Fox news Analyst in few months.
I noticed this myself and find this strange. Are Black people supposed to be whipped up because of this GOP candidate comments? We going through some real things right now in this recession to care about this kind of content and that also make me wary of Black Voices editorial control.
Black Voices was started by Barry Cooper as a social network channel, an old school brotha out of Orlando back in the mid nineties. I hung out with him and his people back then. The Chicago Tribune bought Black Voices from them during the dotcom boomed and moved Black Voices up to Chicago.
During the dotcom bust, Chicago Tribune sold Black Voices to AOL/Time Warner and when AOL branched off, they just moved it under the Huffington Post.
I just realize something looking at the headline – who writes an article saying someone “implies” something? What kind of BS journalism is that?