kernol
Very Senior Member
Black is an accurate description of its color, or actually lack of, since no visible light escapes.
Which is precisely the point I was making in my post you edited {perhaps I was too subtle?} My point was - it is futile to attempt to eliminate either the "black" word or the "white" word and to regard their use in every imaginable context as having racial undertones.
While I fully support non-racialism and, as an anti-apartheid activist in my youth, was jailed for my beliefs, - this "debate" does nothing to advance the cause. It will not unseat the deeply held prejudices in folk on both sides of the spectrum. Meaningful change requires recognition of our shared humanity not a shift in semantics.