Capitalise Black but not white.

I CAME across an interesting article which I have paraphrased and would like to share with the readers of Dawn.

The prestigious American magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, has a policy of capitalising the word Black but not 'white' when referring to ethnicities.

The journal has been very open about this policy, explaining in a recent article, arguing that the word Black is used instead of African-American because it suggests ties to Africa, whereas capitalising Black shows how slavery 'deliberately stripped' those shipped overseas of all other ethnic/national ties'.

The magazine management, however, did say that if one prefers to be called an African-American, that is what they should be called. They insisted...