To Mr. Yeboah, your line of reasoning still can’t hold water. The use of black in adjective does appear in many phrases describing bad times, places and things. However, I still fail to see how and why that ties in with the black community. I repeat, the use of black in this manner is derived from the night, not a race. When I use these phrases, I am not referring to Blacks. This can not be categorized as ignorant racism or otherwise because I am KNOWINGLY not referring to Blacks — just the night.

However, if you still insist on an apology — a sincere and genuine one — then I demand you apologize for every instance you have used the phrase “White out” in reference to either a snow storm or the desktop chemical. After all, according to your mentality, that phrase would mean that whites are destructive.

Theresa Benish

Junior

Zoology and general preveterinary medicine