I got into a huge argument with a student and art teacher about the color black. I said that black was a color cause I could see it. If I see black and can differentiate it from something like blue, white, red, or yellow,then it's a color, though it may not be the color everybody sees when in a certain area being looked at by somebody is different physical makeup, it was still a color. They told there is a differentiation between light and pigment generated colors, but one idea I had trouble wording was that with the pigment idea,there were still chemical makeups in which light could be reflected off it, so long as there was an object in which light could be reflected off of its chemical makeup, there was light induced color. To say that the color black as a pigment is not true black or that it doesn't follow the same spectrum as light induced colors or that light does not effect the color of the object that is pigmented is to basically say that light doesn't reflect off it, but if you look at a glob of paint or dye on a painting tray, you'll see the white shine from the white light reflecting off the paint/dye. Therefore light is reflecting off the object, and since light is reflecting off the object(the paint)there is color, because color is, as scientific theory puts forth, the reflection and refraction of light off an object, so long as the light is hitting the object, the light is determining the color you see before you. However, to say that white is all the colors mixed together and that the light from the sun is "white light" and that black is the absence of light and therefore the absence of color is to jump to the conclusion that the human visual spectrum and perception of light is the absolute way. Some animals and humans see colors differently, the so called white light may appear a different color to other creatures. Whose to say that their perceptions of what we see as green as some other color isn't actually the absolute spectrum. When they see a rainbow, they may see grey,black,turqoise, and purple. Whose to say that their visual spectrum is not the absolute one. And not only, why do we even NEED an absolute spectrum? Who gives us the right to say that it's wrong or flawed of somebody's nature to see black as white or yellow as green, or red as blue. Because our society has built itself on the physical structure of a single group/class. If me, that student, and my art teacher were the only three in the nation who see the black, white, red, and blue the way we do, we would be the "color-blind ones"