i hae a very stupid question and i don't know where to ask

>pink
What? Don't you mean peach?

>>18182286
peach is a shade of pink

>>18182284
>>18182295

people come in so many shades. there are white people who are legitimately white. and black people who are legitimately black.

its a broad term.

>>18182284
>>18182298

and probably because when people started referring to one another in color in english 'peach' was probably not something said very often.

>>18182284
How high are you OP?

>>18182284
The real answer.

It lies in historical racism. As early as Roman times philosophers and pop culture equated black=evil and white=good.

Fast forward to about the Middle Ages and pink people encountering brown people and deciding they were the enemy borrowed the white good, black bad labels and attached them to the races.

Flash forward to the 1960s and African-Americans chose to fight that misuse of language by kidnapping the terms and changing their meaning - Black Power and the like. They were successful enough that many people of both races now use black and white as shorthand describers without the bad/good connotations.

(In a similar way some black people have co-opted 'nigger', one of the vilest words in the language, by using it themselves as a term of friendship and brotherhood)

>>18182284
Because humans are pretty dumb and need categories for shit, preferably not too many so nobody gets confused.

Besides, pink and brown are just as stupid since there are fucktons of more shades.