Mastodawn

King Jan 15, 2024

I have a dream

I have a dream - lemy

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Noel_Skum Jan 15, 2024

Black boys, Black girls, white boys, white girls, superstar deejay, here we go… interesting capitalisation in that there text.

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chulo_sinhatche Jan 15, 2024

You know the MLK didn’t write that transcript, right?

Why are you getting sidetracked from a message of unity with somthing so trivial.

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Noel_Skum

I can’t help thinking and worrying about your reply… from my understanding of written English (my adopted language) capitalisation versus non-capitalisation does suggest separation - or at least a difference of some sort. I always thought some humans are black, some humans are white; most humans are both or neither. The way that speech has been transcribed - NOT SPOKEN - creates a difference. If I wrote I was wearing a Black jacket and a white hat that would be nonsensical. My problem is the subtext of the capitalisation process. (Having said that some lovely person pointed out that apparently this is in AP’s style guide - so maybe it’s well intentioned; but poorly understood by those of us outside the… “yankosphere” (Does that word exist?)