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The correct title is "The Oculus Go Wasn’t Designed for Black Hair". The HN title is the problem.


There's no difference there as that is just title-cased.

Also, only in a few niches like Twitter is "Black" capitalized and then used as an adjective to describe something to do with black people (e.g. "Black success"), so to everyone else it just sounds like the color since most people don't automatically assume everything is racial.

Though the racial fixation of the article is already belabored as anyone with their hair worn a certain way, like my girlfriend right now, can't even wear hats much less a $1000 VR headset. But the success and popularity of racial essentialism in 2020 is another topic.


> only in a few niches like Twitter is "Black" capitalized

The Associated Press & others have recently changed their style guides to capitalize "Black" when referring to the ethnic group (see links below). This is likely a US-specific style, but it is no longer niche.

https://apnews.com/article/9105661462

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/30/why-news-...




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