WM: This conundrum always makes me laugh at the ultimate stupidities we humans use to get ourselves tangled. Caucasian denial is based in denial that "white is the presence of all combined colors." Which is true both for humans and the color spectrum. So, if I had to describe a guy who works up at the gym, I'd have to say he is the color of a fresh fig, a wonderful purple black, though in some kinds of artificial light that purple becomes an aniline blue. But were I describing a friend of mine, I would have to say she's the color of pecan tissue--a light brown fading to taupe.
Andy Driscoll wrote:
Jason is absolutely right. Black is the absence of color - white is presence of all combined colors.
What I think I hear from people when they announce themselves as African American, is that they are not only not "black", but that they have a geographical and lineal allegiance to fabulous civilizations, are the issue of fabulous civilizations, and will no longer consent to being seen as an absence of anything. Seems fair to me.
An aside: Jeez, David, if you''re going to hold us to this spelling thing, I'm gonna be in a considerable hum. I can't spell for sour apples. Thank god for spellchecker.
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