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Remove the 5 Letters "BLACK" from the Dictionary and the Alphabet?

As a retired security professional I was just reading a ZDNET story: "Infosec community disagrees with changing 'black hat' term due to racial stereotyping" I am shocked that somehow the term "Black" as now used frequently to refer to a race of people, has had all other meanings and uses deemed as referring to a race and also being derogatory. So now we have "white" people trying to make crazy changes to assuage "black" people? It doesn't make sense to me. What about you? Excepts are below... The article stated: The information security (infosec) community has angrily reacted today to calls to abandon the use of the 'black hat' and 'white hat' terms, citing that the two, and especially 'black hat,' have nothing to do with racial stereotyping. Discussions about the topic started late last night after David Kleidermacher, VP of Engineering at Google, and in charge of Android Security and th