I got this idea
two days (16 October) ago while reading the book “If It’s Purple, Someone’s
Gonna Die” by Patti Bellantoni. It’s a book about Colour in Visual
Storytelling.
I had watched the Spike Lee film Malcolm X about a year
ago and I saw the jail scene, where Malcolm took note of the predominantly
negative definitions of the word “Black” and the completely pure and positive
definitions of “White” in the dictionary. The subtext of that scene was that ‘the
White man writes the Dictionary’ (which is true, seeing English is in fact
their language), hence the slander of the word “Black”.
