{"id":505258,"date":"2023-05-10T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=505258"},"modified":"2023-05-10T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:47:42","slug":"black-is-the-color-of-power-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/black-is-the-color-of-power-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK IS THE COLOR OF POWER, DOMINANCE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White is the color of purity, effeminateness.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra black? Ten-fold, 10x black?<\/p>\n<p>With clothing, how many layers of black can you wear?<\/p>\n<p>Also with cars, is there a way to add more layers of black to it?<\/p>\n<p>Also, perhaps the darker, more tan your skin is, the more powerful you look?<\/p>\n<p>Something very interesting that I learned in my African-American studies class as an undergraduate was that with men, like Denzel Washington, the darker of your skin is, the more masculine you are perceived. African-American men with lighter skin are seen as weaker.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, with women, the lighter and more fair skinned they are, the more beautiful and feminine they are perceived. For example, in the African-American community, having a lighter skin pigment like a Beyonc\u00c3\u00a9 is seen as more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is why executives like to be driven around in black Mercedes or black Maybachs.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in terms of masculinity and power and dominance, African-American men are seen as more powerful stronger and more dominant than Caucasian men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White is the color of purity, effeminateness. Ultra black? Ten-fold, 10x black? With clothing, how many layers of black can you wear? Also with cars, is there a way to add more layers of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505258"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505272,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505258\/revisions\/505272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}