Black Lives Matter DC Website About Page

The text below is taken directly from the Black Lives Matter DC website. However, when I transcribed the page, I did not capitalize the word ‘black’ in reference to black people throughout the text. On the Black Lives Matter DC site, all reference to ‘black’ people is capitalized throughout the text as a proper noun, hyper-emphasizing the meaning of the word ‘black’. The correct grammatical use is as a common noun, such as black people, brown people, white people.

If I’m not mistaken, correct grammatical capitalization for a proper noun is for an individual person, place, or organization, e.g., Larry, Mexico, and Boston Red Sox. Using a capital ‘B’ in reference to black people within the body of text is a subtle, manipulative, psychological mind-game creating a false sense of emphasis and implicating that black people are a separate group, or entity. Capitalizing the word ‘black’ looks like social engineering by the invisible enemy to ‘keep blacks on the plantation’, while on their website, they state that their goal is to empower the most oppressed black people, etc.

It’s time to create unity in America. As Thomas Jefferson penned in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men (and women) are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.

Here’s the ‘About’ page:

Who is Black Lives Matter DC?

A radical collective of black artists, infrastructure builders, movement healers and strategists from the future, organizing in the here and now.

A member based abolitionist organization centering black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism.

We are dedicated to promoting strategies that:

-empower the most oppressed black people;

-do not reinforce or legitimize systems and institutions that harm black people including police, prisons, mass incarceration and modern slavery;

-divest from people, institutions and systems that harm us and invest in the people, institutions, systems and other models that support our liberation and empowerment;

-use a diversity of tactics to promote harm reduction, political education and non-cooperation as strategic visions

Sauce:

https://www.blacklivesmatterdmv.org/about/