ARE YOU BLACK? NO YOU ARE NOT!
Yes it is science. So it will have scientific detail. Let’s get that out of the way right now.
Perhaps the best explanation, and easiest to comprehend description is found at this link. Images here are from that site.
“The color of the objects that we see is largely due to the way those objects interact with light and ultimately reflect or transmit it to our eyes. The color of an object is not actually within the object itself. Rather, the color is in the light that shines upon it and is ultimately reflected or transmitted to our eyes. We know that the visible light spectrum consists of a range of frequencies, each of which corresponds to a specific color. When visible light strikes an object and a specific frequency becomes absorbed, that frequency of light will never make it to our eyes. Any visible light that strikes the object and becomes reflected or transmitted to our eyes will contribute to the color appearance of that object. So the color is not in the object itself, but in the light that strikes the object and ultimately reaches our eye. The only role that the object plays is that it might contain atoms capable of selectively absorbing one or more frequencies of the visible light that shine upon it.”
Did you notice this part? “When visible light strikes an object and a specific frequency becomes absorbed, that frequency of light will never make it to our eyes.”
So what determines if something is absorbed? Its presence, logically. But it is the light that is reflected that determines the color appearance of the object. Light that is absorbed is the light frequencies the object actually consists of. What we see is what the object has rejected for what it is NOT.
No, a black person is not black. A black person is reflecting very little light frequencies which means the black person is actually nearly WHITE: a collection of all colors.
No, a white person is not white. A white person is reflecting most light frequencies which means the white person is actually nearly BLACK!: the lack of color.
In color theory this is addressed using the complimentary wheel. Opposites. You know, like how your eyes send visual data to your brain UPSIDE DOWN. Your brain makes it right side up.
Need proof your lilly white skin IS NOT LILLY WHITE?
The RGB color (from here) for what is referred to as flesh color is #F5CCB0. The opposite of that color? Well, take a look. (If you have Photoshop or pretty much any other graphics program just invert the colors of your photo to see what color you really are. (Spoiler, its gonna get ugly below.)
Found at this location African American Skin Tones Color Palette lists #3d0c02 as the near dark range skin color. The opposite of that color?
Using the color chart’s lightest color:
How does it actually look using a near human specimen? (Ugly warning!)
I am really blue. In fact most humans are some shade of blue. So we are not different. We just don’t see it that way.
So the next time you declare some sub-species of the HUMAN RACE to be inferior to you, and you identify that person by skin color: you are nothing but an ignorant fool.