It’s either black and white or Black and White. Nothing else makes the least bit of sense unless you’re a racist. From Robert Bridge at strategic-culture.su:
Whites are a race being wrongly chastised for a hideous offense in the name of politics as usual, Robert Bridge writes.
In the blistering summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter marauders were cutting a billion-dollar swath of destruction across urban America, editorial departments of the major news publications decided this was the perfect time to update their style guides by capitalizing ‘Black’ while retaining the lowercase for ‘whites.’
Now, American consumers of mass media are forced to swallow news reports like this one from The Hill: “As breast cancer deaths decline in America, racial disparities persist in the mortality rates between Black and white women. Those rates remain 40 percent higher for Black women, who are also more likely than white women to be diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50…”
A person needn’t be a White supremacist or a card-carrying KKK member to feel some resentment and even anger with this editorial sleight of hand, which smacks hard of blatant discrimination. Indeed, it is enough to make an otherwise tolerant person entertain the dangerous notion that the ‘systemic racism’ they constantly read about is aimed at White people more than anyone.
It would be helpful if the rationale for capitalizing ‘Blacks’ and belittling ‘Whites’ was logical from a purely grammatical point of view, but that does not appear to be the case. Here is John Daniszewski, the VP for Standards at the Associated Press who should know better, explaining the reasoning behind the modification (take special note of the ‘desire’ that precedes ‘reason’): “There was clear desire and reason to capitalize Black. Most notably, people who are Black have strong historical and cultural commonalities, even if they are from different parts of the world and even if they now live in different parts of the world. That includes the shared experience of discrimination due solely to the color of one’s skin.”
post-hoc ergo propter hoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
This smacks of misogyny towards all women.
“feel some resentment and even anger…”
Like literally everything else, it is part of the deliberate demoralization campaign against Whites.