Blackness? A college art professor once told me that there is no pure black in nature. So, there are no black people. We are all one shade or another of brown...except for albinos, who are pink.
That was used as a great scene in “Shaft”...
John Shaft: Warms my black heart to see you so concerned about us minority folks.
Vic Androzzi: Oh come on Shaft, what is it with this black shit, huh?
[Vic holds a black pen up to Shaft’s face]
Vic Androzzi: You ain’t so black.
John Shaft: [Holds a white coffee cup next to Vic’s face] And you ain’t so white either baby.