Is white a color?

Question

In my trusty box of craola's, I rememeber seeing a full spectrum of colors, including the color white. I ask because I thought of the special privileges that people of color have in the US enjoy. As a third generation German American, I m still waiting for mine before white becomes extinct!

Answer 1

no white and black are not colors

Answer 2

Well, now, races are spoken of in colors that should not be applied to skin AT ALL. As for your special privileges, all people deserve to be treated with decency. I would hate to have to go through what many of the people in the past of various cultures/religions/races ("black"-with the slavery in the U.S., Jews/Jehovah's Witnesses with the holocaust, and Native Americans in the U.S., I have distant Cousins who live on the Reservations, with being driven from their homes so others could have their "privileges".)

I think as a third generation German American you are privileged to be who you are, and not have to have gone through physical torture and mental abuse because you are German American and "legally" considered inferior or because of your "color".

Be proud but I'm sure you won't let pride make you prejudice.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

White is the achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.

White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. The impression of white light can be created by mixing (via a process called "additive mixing") appropriate intensities of the primary color spectrum: red, green and blue, but it must be noted that the illumination provided by this technique has significant differences from that produced by incandescence

Light Until Newton's work became accepted, most scientists believed that white was the fundamental color of light; and that other colors were formed only by adding something to light. Newton demonstrated that white was formed by combining the other colors.
In the science of lighting, there is a continuum of colors of light that can be called "white". One set of colors that deserve this description are the colors emitted, via the process called incandescence, by a black body at various relatively-high temperatures. For example, the color of a black body at a temperature of 2848 kelvins matches that produced by domestic incandescent light bulbs. It is said that "the color temperature of such a light bulb is 2848 K". The white light used in theatre illumination has a color temperature of about 3200 K. Daylight has a nominal color temperature of 5400 K (called equal energy white), but can vary from a cool red up to a bluish 25,000 K. Not all black body radiation can be considered white light: the background radiation of the universe, to name an extreme example, is only a few kelvins and is quite invisible.

Answer 4

The "color" white is actually a combination of all colors in the spectrum.

Besides, black comedians will remind us "white" people that we change colors all the time. Cold - we turn blue. Angry or sunburned - we turn red. Suntanned - tan. Bruised - purple, black, or green. Newborn - pink. I think the closest we get to white is when we die, and even then we look a little green.

Answer 5

White is the absense of color. And on the other end black is all colors. That 1st answer is incorrect. Life is for learning.

Answer 6

Yes. It is a mixture of all the colors of the spectrum.

Answer 7

Racists

Answer 8

Actually white is a pigment..or the absence of all color and black is the presents of all color..

Answer 9

white is a color

Answer 10

White is a colour but like every rule, there are exceptions.

Answer 11

i agree with the $0.02 guy....white is all colors....all seven colors. that's why white can break down and become rainbows (me luv 'em)...and black is the absence of color