CyFi is umber. “They used to call us black—can you imagine? Then there was this artist dude—mixed-race himself, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. He got famous, though, for painting people of African ancestry in the Deep South. The color he used most was umber. People liked that a whole lot better, so it stuck. Bet you didn’t know where the word came from, did you, Fry? Following right along, they started calling so-called white people “sienna,” after another paint color. Better words. Didn’t have no value judgment to them. Of course, it’s not like racism is gone completely, but as
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