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black of course is the absence of color & white is the presence of all colors in the visible spectrum.
Although, if you mix all the colors on a palette, you get brown, not white, which serves to point towards our basic creatureliness in my mind...God being Light, light being white & shit being brown. Well, usually it's brown, that is.
every culture that has ever been documented has a word for these 3 colors:
black, white, & red.
since the dawn of time, primitive African cosmologies/theologies have regarded these 3 colors as sacred & important to tribal religion.
one would think that green would figure in as primally also, but it doesn't.
of course, nowadays Africa has constant civil wars because Russia & the USA like to sell them their leftover weapons.
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