Black screen? Sounds racist...
Well, at least MS improves on the colors though from blue to black. Maybe Windows 8 will have the red screen of death..
Once upon a time (back in the nineties) you could customize the color of your Screen Of Death(tm Microsoft Inc. All rights reserved.). I don't know if this trick still works, since I have never gotten a Screen Of Death(tm Microsoft Inc. All rights reserved.) with Windows XP(tm Microsoft Inc. All rights reserved.). I don't see any point in making the change, since I will never know if it took.
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/93526/how-can-i-change-a-bsod-blue-screen-of-death-to-another-color.html
Perhaps if I did use it I would go for the yellow letters on brown background. We all know what the color brown stands for, so it seems the best.