The 'box' is generally considered to be a system that completes a process on input to generate output. White and black are references to the state of illuminat

The 'box' is generally considered to be a system that completes a process on input to generate output. White and black are references to the state of illumination of the inner workings of the machine. White box is not better, it just defeats the mystery/freedom of the abstraction. That said, given that we describe races as white and black, I'm happy to eventually pick up a new convention if it makes folks uncomfortable. I say eventually because the current trend is to consider most of these shallow accommodations as 'performative', and I have no interest in being involved in any action that could be construed as being done for social credit where there is little or no actual value. If i felt or had evidence that it actually did help it would be a different story.