Colorful Language

There is no way, no how, no word, that the candidacy of Barack Obama for President will not bring to mind, reactions and discussions on race. Steven Colbert may have said it best: When will our country give older whites a chance to serve in positions of power, but as Northern Reb mentioned to me recently, our language has a bias of color, as opposed to, for example, a gender one. Consider the many ways and phrases involving differences that are as stark as well, black and white.
There are the phrases “dark mood”, “black hearted”, or “blackmail”. There’s also “black list”, “dark days”, and so many more, whereas such things as untruths can be mitigated by calling them “white lies”, and the “pure” bride, if one exists today wears white as opposed to a colored dress.
Consider the examples in our own lives, and language, which doesn’t necessarily mean anyone should draw a dark conclusion from all this.