(Perhaps this post should be in the previous thread)

Azizi, I'm not sure what you're advocating, unless it's to stop using the colour black to describe negatives. If so, I think you're tilting at windmills, since as previously mentioned, the habit relates to the terrors of night and goes way back to the very roots of many cultures.

I'm old enough to have put up posters advertising public speeches by Black Panther members. A protest rhyme of the day, if I remember it correctly was : "Say it long and say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud." One of the aims of people struggling to eliminate racism was to make blackness (of African roots) a positive, and I think to some extent that has been successful.

Also, the colour black has positive associations; it is associated with dignity and sophistication (black clothing worn by preachers, by fashionable and by respectable women, by wealthy men at fancy events); with fecundity (black soil is fertile); with power (black cars used by dignitaries, etc.).