Imagine...

Imagine seeing the words "white" and/light "light" in all the places where you normally see the words "black" or "dark". What would that be like? Consider the for examples:

• "These are light times."

• "What has been done in the light must come to dark."

• White magic.

• "The white ops burst into the room."

• "You're pretty for a light-skinned girl."

• I'm going shopping on white Friday.

• "I like my coffee white."

• White-on-white crime

• "Once you go white you never go back."

• "Those were some of my lightest days."

• "...tall, light and handsome."

• I put her name in my white book."

• He offended the boss in charge, so the boss white-balled him.

• Eartha Kitt told off President Johnson, so he whitelisted her in Hollywood.

• "White don't crack."

• He's a midget, yet he calls me 'short'. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle white?

• "He gave him a white eye!"

• "After all that alcohol. I just whited-out."

• "Yeah, he's kind of the white sheep of the family."

• He was a light horse: he came out of nowhere and race.

• "The gang sells organs on the light web."

• "It was pitch-white outside yesterday!"

• "You can find endangered species for sale at the white market."

• "It was a light and stormy night..."

• "James knew what happened but he kept us in the light."

• White Death (aka The Bubonic Plague)

• "They looked for the white-box in the crashed 9/11 planes but couldn't find them."

• Why are y'all sitting in the light?

• "He beat her white and blue."

• "Since it's a white-tie event, you have to dress formally."

• Light humor

• Deep, light secret

• The white box from the plane couldn't be found...

• "Don't make me white on you!" (Old NYC Slang)

You know what?

I bet that after you read these, some of

them didn't even make sense anymore.

I challenge you to explore the connotations of: "black", "dark", "white" and "light".