Talk:Black (racial term)

=Creation of Black article=

My intention with creating this article is to simply classify the uses of the word "black" in relation to race and ethnicity. Here are my rules:


 * This article is primarily about the term and not any group of people.
 * Discussions about groups of people, aparthied, blackness, pan africanism, other racial or ethnic terms, who is black, colonialism, slavery etc. are not allowed. Those issues are best handled by links to other articles.
 * Each section of the article starts with how the terms are used now. I'm assuming that is why most people will be comming to the article. Historical uses of the term should be mentioned as an explanation of origin but in depth discussion of historical usage should be a link to another article. For example African American article is the best place to handle the historical usage of the term black in the United States.

--Gbleem 18:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Gbleem, see Color metaphors for race, an article which already largely covers this topic area. --Dhartung | Talk 08:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)