Race: does the word ‘black’ have a negative connotation ?

There exist a lot of color symbolisms, such as black plague and white knight.

It is understandable why white people might associate all of the positive meanings usually attributed to white values in these symbolisms with their own skin color – but I hope that white people ( including myself ) are smart enough to realize that color metaphors do not translate into race credibilities.

Likewise, it is understandable why black people might develop a negative color complex as a consequence of all of the negative meanings attributed to black values in these symbolisms.

My question: are we able to get past the color metaphors?

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As an example that the many color symbolisms do not translate correctly into race credibility, think about soul … what is soul? Whatever it is, it is positive – white – and it seems to me that black people have a lot more of it than white people, who are generally repressed, which is negative – black.

Thus, according to this loose example, black people are white and white people are black.
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