My suggestion, just to make sure that we offend no living creature–and all inanimate objects–is to capitalize every Noun, like that.

Sound good?

PS, the writer probably thought the he or she was serving “the cause,” and avoiding offense-giving, by capitalizing “blacks”….

@Dorothy – Thank you for posting about Gwendolyn Brooks. That is more or less what I was trying to point out and discuss. I didn’t mean to upset anyone…

Also, black youths from nearby city ghettos often have no other opportunity, but to deal drugs, NOT to excuse any crime, but to face a hard reality. Remember that many young college age people who MIGHT be a market for illegal drugs live on Clark St. in the dorms there, and some of them sure look less than wholesome, always hanging out smoking nearby, and talking tough and rough, too, not to stereotype students, as most are wholesome and serious people, and even those not so wholesome looking can be serious and hardworking students. No stereotypes intended .

Also, Pulitzer Prize winning poet/author, Gwendolyn Brooks, wanted us all to capitalize “Blacks” to designate all black peoples of the world in unity as “Blacks,” the majority population of the world– though grammar books might tell us to keep Blacks as blacks with a lower case letter at the beginning, as we write “whites,” but there is ONLY ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE, as most of us would agree, one hopes. Actually scientists have shown that there is no such thing as race as we are all descended, as far as science can determine, from the same gene pool, 250 thousand years ago in the heart of Africa. We are all genetically related except for secondary biological characteristics like skin color, shape of eyes and nose, etc. Scientifically speaking, there is only ONE race of people, the human race, and there ar good and bad of every as most of us know. Hopefully, this is a helpful commentary, which is my hope in taking the time to write.

Let’s not get nuts here, political correctness gone amok. Blacks or black males, give it a break. Stop with the liberal white guilt. Thanks.