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I’ve seen a lot of good examples of black being bad, but black also is a positive thing in many contexts. Amex Black card? Or other cards? A sign of prestige.
by mike503 6y ago
I’ve seen a lot of good examples of black being bad, but black also is a positive thing in many contexts.
Amex Black card? Or other cards? A sign of prestige.
Black limousines and towncars are seen as prestigious.
Black clothes make you look thinner; plenty of women like to outfit themselves in black as much as possible.
The gothic look primarily deals in black. Never seen or heard anyone try to link some sort of racial relation to it.
It’s weird that “black <something>” is now being looked at so critically, especially since “black people” isn’t even a properly descriptive term, but one that may even have roots itself as the “white man’s N word” back in the day. However it seems to the acceptable phrase. I’m now going to see what the epidemiology of that is, I’m curious who came up with it.
- mike503 6y agoI should elaborate my point slightly. Even Wikipedia says this: “For many other individuals, communities and countries, "black" is perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result is neither used nor defined, especially in African countries with little to no history of colonial racial segregation” [1] So to many (maybe not in US) it already is an offensive term. My thought would be why not move past the term of black people to something more universal with no historical questionability, and not get caught up in “is black <something>” offensive. Instead of having to fight and question a lot of black <something> due to its actual color, embrace a more transcendent new term (much like Indian vs Indigenous Person vs Native American, that movement) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people Edit for minor typo