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We will start with the term "white light". Why is it called "white", when it is visible without adistinct color?All the colorsyou see in the world are merely a reflection from one of the colors in the spectrum of visible light.

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It is obvious that your eye can see white objects;therefore, "white" must be among the other colors in the spectrum of visible light. So how can light be "white", yet be made up of white light and many other colors? This absurdity is only one of many examples that show the racist philosophy ingrained in Western/European education.

Another example is the term "white noise" (or White Gaussian Noise)often present on both wireless and wired communication signals. It is random noise that resembles something like this...

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Quoting from wikipedia, "white noise is considered analogous to white light which contains all frequencies. An infinite-bandwidth white noise signal is purely a theoretical construction." That sums it up. It is purely a theoretical construction. We can clearly see another underlying theory or philosophy in this construction, and that is the association of whiteness with being rather supertemporal. Again, why does this random, and theoretically infinite, signal have to be classified as "white"?

There are many examples throughout Western/European physics, chemistry, and even biology concepts. However, lets move to the applications in our everyday lives. The web pages that you look at when you browse the Internet are often constructed with a simple scripting language called HTML. Each color on the page is indicated by a hexadecimal number, where its number system has a radix of 16, as opposed tobinary numberswhere the radix is 2. The radixof "normal numbers" that we use everyday is 10; the numbersystem is simply called decimal. Here is a table comparison of the three radices.

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Now with an understanding of numbers, it is seen that the greatest single-digit number in hexadecimal is "F" (equivalent to 15 in decimal).When going back to the HTML color codes, we seean interestingmapping of the colors with a value or number.

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Do you not find it odd that the color black is given a value of zero (0), (the same as000000 in hexadecimal)? Yet, oddly enough, at the end of the color grid the color with the highest numeric value (FFFFFF)is white. In fact, it is the same as the White Supremacist power structure that places more value on a person the lighter (or closer to white)in skin color they are. The same has been conventionalized into the HTML color codes.

There are plenty of examples in science and technology I could point out, but that could get considerably long. So, have you recognized the ingrained colorism and racism in your education or casual learning of concepts driven by Western/European thought? Is the White man's racist philosophies thus so deeply ingrained that it permeates in every aspect of his life, or is this mere coincidence? Your feedback is appreciated my African folks...


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Post imported post - 08-12-06, 07:46 AM

You're reading way too much into nothing.

The mere naming of something as white or black can't be racist unless such nomenclature invokes a moral/social judgement. Is the person saying white noise or white light are positive happy things? I hardly think so.


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You're reading way too much into nothing.

The mere naming of something as white or black can't be racist unless such nomenclature invokes a moral/social judgement. Is the person saying white noise or white light are positive happy things? I hardly think so.
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If you read what I wrote, I never said that the nomenclature involved was racist. I am asking whether or not these occurrences thatassociate whiteness with the highest concievable quantity/order isa product of thinking by those with racist philosophies. Basically,there is no reason to associate "white" with these things unless you already percieve whiteness to be on the highest order of things.


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In all cases that 'white' go through a limited prism(prison) which is not the sole source of white or any other derivative from it.

If light travel from the sun supposedly, then I can say the the darkness of space (prism or prison) created the 'white light' not the sun because it can be yellow red white black on an eclipse etc.

Perhaps it can be intepreted as scientific bias which is occuring more and more these days.
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Bump this thread. clp)

Another interesting question is whether or not racism is ingrained in the foreign religions that we love so dearly...
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Bump this thread. clp)

Another interesting question is whether or not racism is ingrained in the foreign religions that we love so dearly...

Oh, that's a given. It is present in both the Qur'an (as well as its accompanying Hadiths) and the Bible.


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If light travel from the sun supposedly, then I can say the the darkness of space (prism or prison) created the 'white light' not the sun because it can be yellow red white black on an eclipse etc.

The sun isn't any 'colour' other than white as it burns at such a high temperature. Maybe that same idea is applied to the HTML code and with the other ideas of white having a high value and, in a sence, containing all.

All valuescome from nun - zero. The shade black on the html code chart gives birth to all other colours including the high value associated with the colour white. As said in the Metu Neter having many does not mean that it is in any way superior tothat that can produce many and as with left brain thinking, its divisions, means that it is lost within its high numerical value,streachedinto an infinity,challenging nun by seeming as though ithas becomeeverything.

HLF had an intresting comment;

One half of the sons of GOD are completely in-tune (intuition) (at one) with The Divine GOD, His Divine Will, Wayand Divine Order, the other half are in complete rebellion from The Divine GOD and His Will.

They can't change certain things Shemsi, they can only pretend to so as to make us belive that they can in the first place, giving them power. You're forgetting what it means to be of nothing.Black has to be 0 in the Html chart as it is the universe, nun. Prehaps they can twist things slightly but there is nothing new under the sun because there can't be. Everything within science and all its divisions has its basis, is rootedin what was taught at the beginning. There is nothing new.

It would be intresting to see what effect shining black (UV) light into a Prism has. Would it create a spectrum in the same way white light does?


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What about the black hole? Sounds pretty powerful, savage and mysterious at the same time...
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If light travel from the sun supposedly, then I can say the the darkness of space (prism or prison) created the 'white light' not the sun because it can be yellow red white black on an eclipse etc.

The sun isn't any 'colour' other than white as it burns at such a high temperature. Maybe that same idea is applied to the HTML code and with the other ideas of white having a high value and, in a sence, containing all.



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There is no 'official' claim that the sun is 'white'. There are scientist like everyday people who give their opinion on the matter but nothing 'official'. In all cases, opinions just shape ideas, that is all but not absolute truth that is unrefutable.

But if the sun is not 'officially' white then comparison to HTML color should not be made since its considered 'official'.

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The HTML code was just an example of black being, 'assigned' to a lesser quality than white. What I was pointing outis thatscience isthe escoteric made popular, accepted without itsroots in Alkhemy andother spiritual sciencesand just as it is represented in the escoteric as, nun/the unconsious and so onit is shown in, ''modern day'' science in the same way.

I'm sure the sun looks yellow as its rays pass through the atmosphere;


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Didn't you ever take a perception course?All thecolourstogetherin the visible spectrumare called white light because whenyou add lights of each colour together, theycreate white light.Thus whitedoesn't existinand of itself,it is the addition of all colours in the visible spectrum.When you perceive white you are perceivinga mixture of red, yellow, green, blue, orange and purple. In the same why, black is also not a colour, it is the absence of the colours in the visible spectrum. When you mix the same amount ofpaints of all the coloursin the visible spectrum for instance, they cancel each other out and that is how you perceive black.

You can also use this to explain the numerical coding of HTML colours. Black is the absence of colour so it isgraded 000000to denote this absence. White gets the highest grading because it isthe addition of all the colours and the middle colours are graded by their level of saturation.

I don't see where the racism is here. Black exists in and of itself. We are the ones who choose to continue to associate ourselves withit. So if we don't like the fact that it's the absence of colour, then we can simply stop calling ourselves black.
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