The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, December 26, 1925, Page TWO, Image 2
CAPITALIZING TWR g
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soeiated Negro ?? 1
It was a custom growing out
of American slavery To" write ~~
the-word Negro With a small
"n" (negro.) Th'a-t custom had
at least a semblance of reason
in slavery days, but even that
semblance has passed, .as. we
{ ' shall explain. ??* ??
In some of the very old English
books, books beyond the
p influence of the customs of slavery.
the word Negro was capi- T
' -tahzefd ftgfes ago." '
rr . inally a common adjective Tn _
Spanish, derived from the word
*-- ^niger-." Latin adjective meaning
Black. But the word is in
its present use a noun, de^ignat
' ing a particular race or group.
When a noun denotes the name
of a particular person, group or
institution* it is a prober noun,
~and should be equalized. To ?
say that the word Negro should
not be capitalized simply be- I
cause it is derived from a cummon
adjective which was used
??substantive -ito?denote?at _ 1
~ first "black people," ia &a"cr-' ?roneous
as to say that when-a
mnnVnnmP ic Pnk-nr KVmprrmkpr
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or Smith, the name should be
written with lower-case lottery?
'(baker, shoemaker, or smith) (
simply because those words in
fact were derived from the' com- Jj
* mon nouns, and denoted in their t
" beginning the trade or vocatiori
of people. Ay common noun
becomes a proper noun when us
ed to. denote a particular per
own or ming, or a particular
group of persons or things.?
? It is manifestly indefensible j
Iwhen an American newspaper
puts it this way in a news col- . \
umn: ."The inhabitants of
this town are 5,000 Caucasian;*, \ j
33 Mongolians, $3 Indians, and
? 652 negroes." , If the word Ne?
gro fs a euminuii noun, iL is b.v
?" casian, jd6H?611Ml klUl llldlUh."' 1
-?fiuVHHr might be -said;?we- ? J
would also write white people U. >i
and Mongolians" and not capi- |l
talize "white." Yes, and tha?t ft
Is because "white" is not exact- "
ly co-ordinate with "Mongol- ?
ianr4* "White" is simply a de- ^
scriptive adjective,?not a ra-( ???
r ciai name, but an inaccurate radal
description. There may be ^
j some brown ~"whtte'' pebpteran%?
there are certainly white "Mon- V
?? golianswl!?And- in the accepted
meaning of "Negro" in America,
there' are certainly black.
brown, and white "Negroes."
- The term "Negro"-"is no longer V
J?-?^^negro" meaning black, but is
now a proper.noun designating z
a group of' people, a race. We X
-do not, of course, capitalize ?
"blacka,'' nor should uc capital- ^
ize "colored." These ,descrip- X4
tlVPa 1 1
,,? wince, piacK, colored," |
?are co-ordinates, simply de-n&
scriptive adjectives,?more or
less ineptly applied, of course.
But while "white" is co-ordinate
with "black or colored or | ^
brown or yellow," stilt "white"
The word Caucasian is co-ordi- 4*
7 " I
nate with the word Negro ir the
_ word Mongolian. ,?
We sometimes use - other
i,. words more narrowly designa: V
tory of race; Celtic/Gallic, Slav, I
?and we capitalize these words, i
as we should. <?
The word Necrrn woa ' + <
~ "uo waj/ittti- "J
ized before slavery, but it looked
inconsistent for a sk-vo-own-, ^
er to advertise for saler "six
plows, 3 mules, 2 cows, 6 bales j
i of cotton and 10 Negroes," cap- *%
italizing only the last, . It look-1 X
ed bad t ocanitalize the name of
a mere chatteL Tb.e,.tu.was the! ?
? original motive, almost instinctively
expressed, behind the cus- ?
* torn that made out Negro to be ?
|L/ a common noun. I
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