Did you know that you can't kill yourself by holding your breath?

White is a color and black is a color.

" Black isn't a color. It's color is based on the fact that it has no color, but that's common fact, and totally not mind-blowing. However, when someone is referring to a "colored person" they are technically referring to everyone BESIDES black people, as they are black, and therefore, not colored, while they are white, and therefore colored.  "

I already knew that....

Ok, Red, you redeemed yourself.

Since when were white people white anyway?
 
If you appear to be white my advice is... seek sunlight... or a doctor.

own'd

Ofn, but yeah :D

WOAH! I never thought of it that way!

" Black isn't a color. It's color is based on the fact that it has no color, but that's common fact, and totally not mind-blowing. However, when someone is referring to a "colored person" they are technically referring to everyone BESIDES black people, as they are black, and therefore, not colored, while they are white, and therefore colored.  "

Alright, alright, I know some of your minds weren't blown, but this will MORE than make up for it. 

"However, when someone is referring to a "colored person" they are technically referring to everyone BESIDES black people, as they are black, and therefore, not colored, while they are white, and therefore colored.  "

" @Xeiphyer: People above 65-70 still use the term "coloured people", When slavery was abolished that didn't make everybody hug each other and be accepting. People in their fifties and maybe late forties can remember segregation. The guy that opened the thread is indeed a simpleton though, I shall agree with you there. "

OK lets at least blow a few minds I suppose in this terrible topic, so here we go I guess....
 
LAMP... or... LEGS?

" @FluxWaveZ said:

" @natetodamax said:

" How about we refer to people as humans, as one individual race? "

That will never happen. "

Because people aren't willing to be smart. "

For someone named "Red" you show a surprising lack of understanding of your fellow colors.

" @natetodamax said:

" How about we refer to people as humans, as one individual race? "

That will never happen. "

" How about we refer to people as humans, as one individual race? "

='( I was promised mind-blowing.

How about we refer to people as humans, as one individual race?

My mind is confused and flaccid; you do not know the art of blowing minds.

Black and White are not colors. Absence of light and addition of light.

" @AgentJ said:

" But when you are looking at something, black results from every color reflecting back into your eyes. So really, it's more like a rainbow than a lack of color "

Ahh this has always been a facinating subject.  The answer is... Black is the absence of color when color is perceived as light (also known as the Additive Color Theory). As such, from this perspective it is not a color.  However, based on the Subtractive Color Theory where color is perceived as pigment, black is the sum of all colors and white is the absence of color. So from this perspective black is a color. So... Black is a color, and it isn't. Just depends on how you look at it. :) "

wat this topic is pointless. black isnt a colour... okay...  my mind is definatly not blown. slightly awkward topic. no point of it and not interesting

But black/coloured people's skin isn't actually black. It's brown (sometimes to the point of being almost black, but never quite fully black). So "Coloured" is far more correct than "Black".
 
My mind remains fully unblown.

don't worry TC
 
you blew my mind

There's only one color that matters anyway...and it ain't black or white.

" black is the absence of visible light being reflected to your eyes, black objects absorb all rays of light so we dont see any colours, white reflects all so it is a blending of every colour. thats grade 7 stuff there, "

Mind remains un-blown.  Also: black people aren't really even black; they're dark brown.

Black is the absence of light, however there is no such thing as "true black". The closest we get to it is absorption of ~99.99 of EM radiation bouncing off something.
 
"Black people" are dark, not black. It's just a euphemism, "White" people are more lightish yellow/orange than white.

If someone says colored people they're idiots.

@Bubahula:
 damn, you kinda beat me to it.

No one's Black.  Everyone is just different shades of brown.

" But when you are looking at something, black results from every color reflecting back into your eyes. So really, it's more like a rainbow than a lack of color "

" Black isn't a color. It's color is based on the fact that it has no color, but that's common fact, and totally not mind-blowing. However, when someone is referring to a "colored person" they are technically referring to everyone BESIDES black people, as they are black, and therefore, not colored, while they are white, and therefore colored.  "

This thread did not blow my mind.  
 
So, uh... Yeah.

" I thought both white and black (and all the greys in between) were tones, rather than colours. "

Looks like topic poster read something in his grade 8 science book or something and thought nobody knew =P 
I Suppose it could have been art too lol.
 
Anyways, black people aren't really black anyways, in fact, white people really aren't white at all, we are acutally transluent, thats why you can see your veins, and you can totally shine light thru your fingers lol.
 
OH ALSO, Who calls black people "coloured people" any more? That was an  1800-1900's term? It dissapeared around the time slavery did? lol. It stopped being relevant when asians, indians, native americans, and everyone else started becoming common.
 
So I change my mind again, you read it in a social textbook, or had your teacher tell you probably? I would assume anyone who reads things semi-often probably wouldn't expect everyones mind's to be blown by this.
 
/close thread?

But when you are looking at something, black results from every color reflecting back into your eyes. So really, it's more like a rainbow than a lack of color

"black" people are various shades of brown due to higher levels of melanin, also by your logic white people are also not coloured because white is also a shade.

I thought both white and black (and all the greys in between) were tones, rather than colours.

Black isn't a color. It's color is based on the fact that it has no color, but that's common fact, and totally not mind-blowing. 
However, when someone is referring to a "colored person" they are technically referring to everyone BESIDES black people, as they are black, and therefore, not colored, while they are white, and therefore colored.