Baraka_Guru

No, they're common nouns.

Common noun: American
Proper noun: Crompsin

I capitalize Black and White to distinguish the cultural entities from the common colours. I mean Black and White people, not black and white.

It saves me from having to type out "of African descent" and "of the Caucasoid race."

Poetry is dead, willravel. But, seriously, we can't expect rappers to produce something akin to what came out of a stuffy British guy from the turn of the 20th century. Rappers that are good are coming out with statements about things that bother them and weigh them (and their "people") down. Not the best example for content, necessarily, but do you think it's easy to piece together what comes out of Eminem's mouth? To deny that he's good in some capacity would convince me you don't have a full enough understanding of language and how it works.

I would have preferred you compare rappers to the likes of Langston Hughes, considering the culture and the issues of their respective art forms. I don't know of any rappers that would hold up to that, though. But it's not like I know rap that well.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot