They just mean that it isn't a conventional color. Black has 2 different connotations, neither of which include it being it's own color. In the additive color sense, black is a combination of all colors. you can get this using paint, crayons, markers, etc... In the subtractive color sense, black is the absence of color, as in it is all the light being absorbed. Notice if you put white light through a prism it separates into all of the colors. Showing the subtractive effect

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This also explains white being all colours in one sense, and no colours at all in another sense. White and black are the same, but exactly opposite.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Color is reflected light from a surface, black absorbs all light therefore there is no color

by Anonymous 13 years ago

DUECE, ITS NOT A COLOR. its a shade. Black has no color while white is all the colors. Learn your shit. :) <3

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Black is the absence of colors.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

who the fuck cares??

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well it isn't its the lack of color, but whatever this is amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

actually, black is a color, well more of a combination of all the colors in different shades and hues. white, when were are talking colors, not light, is the ABSENCE of color, so its not a color.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

okay dumbass, black is a shade.

by Anonymous 13 years ago