Menu
Speakout
Let teachers teach
Here we go again. Teachers in our town in Mississippi County, Scott County, Stoddard County, Pemiscot County, these teachers go to teach our kids. Not to be arrested or have charges filed against them for child abuse because they didn’t report it. Their job is to teach and not look at each kid and see if a child is being abused or not. That’s just a shame. We’ve got officers for that. Why don’t the officers get out and do their job instead of sitting behind a desk? Why doesn’t social services do their job? Teachers have enough responsibility. They’re already spending all the money they make around here to help our kids. They don’t even make very much. They barely survive too. Now teachers have to worry about being charged and lose their job or go to jail? That’s for other people. Let the teachers teach instead of doing all this other stuff. And I am a parent.
Why is Black capitalized?
I am constantly amazed by the left-wing biased by the Associated Press articles in your newspaper. When did they go woke? Why are they using capital B for Black people and not a capital W for white people? Have they ever explained why they capitalize Black people? Has the Associated Press ever explained this?
From the Associated Press: “AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses. We also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.
These decisions align with long-standing capitalization of distinct racial and ethnic identifiers such as Latino, Asian American and Native American. Our discussions on style and language consider many points, including the need to be inclusive and respectful in our storytelling and the evolution of language.
After a review and period of consultation, we found, at this time, less support for capitalizing white. White people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. In addition, AP is a global news organization and there is considerable disagreement, ambiguity and confusion about whom the term includes in much of the world.
We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.
Some have expressed a view that if we do not capitalize white, we are being inconsistent and discriminating against white people, or, conversely, that we are implying that white is the default. We also took note of the argument that capitalizing the term could pull white people more fully into issues and discussions of race and equality.“