"The failure to capitalize Black when it is synonymous with African American is a matter of unintended racism, to put the best possible face on it."
— Black people

January 1, 1970

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Robert S. Wachal, "The Capitalization of Black and Native American," American Speech, vol. 75, no. 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 364–65. Quoted in African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts and Contemporary Issues (2019) by Stephen Ferguson II and John McClendon III, p. 6, .