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StaticNoise2 on scored.co
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When the founding Fathers would describe themselves they'd probably use words like Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Puritan, American, European or any number of descriptors which are proper nouns and would have capitalization.
If you have a problem with someone it's whoever popularized Anglo-Saxons using an English word for a color to identify themselves. Colors, which are adjectives do not get capitalized per established English rules that predates even America as a country.
It happened probably because we didn't know what to call black people to describe them. Calling them African would create an un-American identity in them. Then over time "if they're black then I'm white" probably became the predominant thought as the skin colors are the furthest apart.
There was a time when "white people" didn't call themselves white.
A 1600s Englishman would call himself a Briton, or an Anglo-Saxon, not a "white man".
If you want to fix this grammatical problem then the proper way is to reclaim older terms like Anglo-Saxon, not play into black Marxist attack on language games.
If you have a problem with someone it's whoever popularized Anglo-Saxons using an English word for a color to identify themselves. Colors, which are adjectives do not get capitalized per established English rules that predates even America as a country.
It happened probably because we didn't know what to call black people to describe them. Calling them African would create an un-American identity in them. Then over time "if they're black then I'm white" probably became the predominant thought as the skin colors are the furthest apart.
There was a time when "white people" didn't call themselves white.
A 1600s Englishman would call himself a Briton, or an Anglo-Saxon, not a "white man".
If you want to fix this grammatical problem then the proper way is to reclaim older terms like Anglo-Saxon, not play into black Marxist attack on language games.