An 8 year old, curious about words decided one day to look up the word black. Looking at school, the child came upon a copy of Webster’s Dictionary and began to read the definition of the term black:

Wicked, evil, solemn, absent of light, sinister, despair, made of coal, a black person- having dark skin, indicative of condemnation or discredit, connected to invoking the supernatural and especially the devil, gloomy, very sad, marked by disaster, sullen, a person belonging to any of various population groups having dark pigmentation of the skin, African American….. The definition of Black.

That same 8 year old, curious about words decided one day to look up the word white. Looking online, the child came upon the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and began to read the definition of the term white:

Free from color, pure, made of silver, free from moral immunity, marked by the wearing of white by the woman as the symbol of purity, marked by up right fairness, not intending to cause harm, angelic, snowy, white Christmas, passionate, consisting of white people and their culture….. The definition of white.

Above two words are looked up in the same dictionary most kids have in school or lying around their home, the Merriam Webster dictionary. The terms black and white are colors that were utilized during the Renaissance period “pre-slavery” to describe two types of people, aside from also describing colors.

Thomas Middleton, English playwright and poet created the term “white people” in the early 1600’s, much earlier than slave owners all agreed to call their slaves black. Yes, the term “black” was appointed to the slaves during slavery by the slave owners.

After the Stono Rebellion of 1739, the race class system all changed as the two terms began to morph into psychological identifiers designed to do more than innocently describe colors; they became implicit attitude anchors designed to elevate, divide and immobilize “white” & “black” people.

Sadly, the color class system is the cognitive mechanism that fortifies the implicit inability for advancement for some and the entitled solace and security for others.

Glenn C.

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