tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post6556027366152437505..comments2023-10-18T07:36:11.672-07:00Comments on The American Journal of Color Arousal: Why Whites Insist hat the Word "Black" Not Be CapitalizedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-14205240628188767742008-10-21T14:31:00.000-07:002008-10-21T14:31:00.000-07:00I see your point on capitalizing the word "Black",...I see your point on capitalizing the word "Black", however, I notice you don't agree that the same rules apply to "White". Why not?mrswhetstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06792527459712995371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-69202251203902602812008-06-24T15:21:00.000-07:002008-06-24T15:21:00.000-07:00thanks for writing this piece. do you know of any ...thanks for writing this piece. do you know of any other articles or publications that discuss Black as a cultural/national identity?Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16809854673177961550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-51930668295453862962008-04-10T14:10:00.000-07:002008-04-10T14:10:00.000-07:00Thanks for bringing up this issue, DP, and you're ...Thanks for bringing up this issue, DP, and you're welcomed for the link love. <BR/><BR/>Whites' opposition to capitalizing the word "Black" is clearly color-aroused. It IS irrational and can only be understood when you study their ideation toward Blacks, the emotions that this ideation engenders, and the color-aroused behavior that is engendered by this color-aroused ideation and emotion.<BR/><BR/>When we understand the specific fears, envies, jealousies, love and hate that motivate whites' specific irrational behaviors, it becomes more feasible confront them in the most productive ways possible. Of course, each situation and each white person is different and so this requires a lot of close observation and analysis, group reflection and as well as reality testing.<BR/><BR/>But, using the color-arousal analysis, we no longer have to live as unwelcome visitors in a white ideational and emotional fantasy world. We begin to construct our own world rationally, based on our own observations, not founded on whites' rationalizations and self-serving fallacies.Francis Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862777385923656061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-37417132245514707912008-04-09T11:11:00.000-07:002008-04-09T11:11:00.000-07:00Francis, thanks for the link love.I agree that Bla...Francis, thanks for the link love.<BR/><BR/>I agree that Black as it's used in America is a proper noun referring to an ethnic group. In other words it should be capitalized. The discussion going on in the Afrosphere about this issue has given us some different perspectives to consider, and you know, I'm starting to buy into your theory of color aroused ideation. Any way you look at this it's pretty much irrational to not capitalize the word when it refers to an ethnic grouping. At the least, if the editorial board refuses, then use African-American in those instances where multiple ethnic groups are referred to.DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08659537191293319886noreply@blogger.com