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Dennis Prager Podcasts

September 22, 2020 - B is for Black

Dennis Prager Podcasts

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dennis challenges the AP’s new rule that the word black must now be capitalized when referring to a person who is black … Dennis talks to Nestride Yumga, a health care executive and immigrant from Cameroon. She presents the newest PragerU video, “I Love America Too Much to Stay Silent.”

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And on Local Now, Channel 525. Okay, everyone, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. My column this week is on the capitalization of Black, introduced in July by Associated Press whose manual of style is what directs journalists and authors to in how to it's not mandatory but people follow the generally follow the

1:08.9

the AP Associated Press manual of style, and the reasoning that they give, if I would to read it to you,

1:21.3

you would realize the corruption of everything. In fact I will read it to you.

1:28.0

AP changes writing style to capitalize B in black.

1:35.0

So let's see.

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No, one second, that's the story of it. Here is the reasoning. I hope that this is the...

1:47.0

Yes, you ready? Here it is. This is now, remember, so for example, the AP style, where do you put a quotation

1:58.2

mark? Is it after the period of a sentence or before.

2:03.0

When is it before, when is it after?

2:05.9

So it has, it's useful in having a standardized mode

2:11.4

of writing English.

2:14.6

So this is July 20th, 2020 from the AP explaining AP style on black and white.

2:22.3

AP style is now to capitalize black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense,

2:29.0

conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify

2:38.0

as black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa.

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