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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 09/17/18> Black sheep, blacklisted, black balled… why is black almost always the adjective describing something bad?
From a practical standpoint black sheep being labeled as bad makes perfect sense. In that case I wouldn't have considered "black=bad" from its usage on black sheep. Blacklist/whitelist has no defense though, though I doubt we would change it to goodlist/badlist anytime soon. Though those do sound more direct heh... (Texas, I'd say you're off the hook on this one)
It was practical back then, not so much now.
It isn't our fault people decided to expand on the original concept that is for sure.