The Trend to Capitalize Black

I don't mind seeing black being capitalized. I just have a stylistic preference for not capitalizing it, but I can understand why black Americans feel that they occupy an ethnicity. What I would also say though is I am slightly skeptical about the ways in which this tendency to capitalize the being black isn't just confined to America. There are at least two British based publications which now adopt capitalizing black. And there's somebody that comes from Nigeria, where over 99% of the population is black and where the main divide in lines in society is not race, but other things like ethnic tribal groups, religion, geography, and other cultural factors. "I just find this kind of race essential