> Is it really so hard to see that the continued usage of "black = bad, white = good" could be problematic?
Why could it be problematic? That association exists in every culture and language. If you know that and you still hate it, the optimal solution would be not to call Europeans/Caucasians "white" and Africans/Negroids "black." It's as simple as that. Why do you want to keep calling people by color?
The book and movie "a dry white season" beg to differ.
From an African perspective I guess it is totally valid that white is the colour of death, dessicated bones baked by the sun, cleaned by the wind.
Why could it be problematic? That association exists in every culture and language. If you know that and you still hate it, the optimal solution would be not to call Europeans/Caucasians "white" and Africans/Negroids "black." It's as simple as that. Why do you want to keep calling people by color?