The author is pulling people's legs. Or very young and truly ignorant to make these suggestions. Referring to blackness had nothing to do with race, they're ta

The author is pulling people's legs. Or very young and truly ignorant to make these suggestions. Referring to blackness had nothing to do with race, they're talking about people that went outside and worked. That's why the women were "white". Think antebellum south, holding an umbrella. Even in my own family when someone would come in from working outside in a garden with a tan, my grandma would say their skin was black. It just means tan or darker. The younger generations born in the last 25 years didn't even experience this world when people commonly left the laptop or phone and still went outside and worked. It's not surprising as a result that we're seeing such gross misinterpretations pop up.