blacklist was never intended to mean black people, but undesired people it doesn't reinforce the idea that black is bad and white is good, it was modelled arou

blacklist was never intended to mean black people, but undesired people it doesn't reinforce the idea that black is bad and white is good, it was modelled around the idea that black is bad and white is good. Because for humans black (dark) is bad and white (light) is good. Black cats were considered a symbol of bad luck because they were invisible in the dark, not because they resembled black people.