Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
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Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
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#2Some Famous Inventions by Black inventors:
The Game Cartridge
The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
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#3There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun.
It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined.
Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
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#4Some Famous Inventions by Black inventors: The Game Cartridge The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
> The Game Cartridge
yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned.
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#5I don't think this thread will list many comments. Given the interesting times we are living, the safest course is to say nothing whenever a black person, or people, related topic pops-up.
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#6There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun. It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined. Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
This may or may not change your mind on the topic.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
From the article:
To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”
Re: Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
#7There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun. It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined. Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
How would you describe someone like G.K. Butterfield, Mordecai Johnson, John Hope or Walter White then?
Re: Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
#8There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun. It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined. Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
Well, all I ask for is consistency. If "Black" is to be capitalized, "White" should be too, all men (and women) being equal and whatnot (though I suppose you could argue "Caucasian" is capitalized).
Still, I don't like politicization of colors and I actively want to defuse attempts to politicize the word "black". It's getting so bad that literally the color black is coming under attack - for example the python formatter "black"[0]
Re: Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
#9There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun. It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined. Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
This may or may not change your mind on the topic. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php From the article: To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenou…
So by that logic Obama should be small capital black since his father was from the wrong side of Africa and not a slave. When will we have our first Black president who isn't just black?
And what of the whites in Africa. Do we capitalize only the Boers who suffered a genocide from the British? Is Musk the only W white we can talk about? That poor richest man with such historic baggage. Truly the best role model for all African Americans.
Oh the racialist hierarchies we build.
Re: Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley
#10There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color. I don’t think it’s a great trend, making skin color into a proper noun. It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined. Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
This may or may not change your mind on the topic. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php From the article: To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenou…
I never saw the capitalization as being about ethnic or racial identity and just due to the fact that e.g. countries or continents are capitalized.
I think it’s even more false to capitalize “Indigenous”, no?
Being “Asian” or “South Asian” are broad enough that they don’t refer to any particular ethnicity, nationality or culture.
This phenomenon exists everywhere.
(Disclaimer: English is second language, in my native language we don’t capitalize any of these words and even in English I would only do so when required by grammar, so it may impress me different than others)