Do you think we should ban the terms blackout, blackbody radiation, black holes, black ice, black ops, and black markets? Not everything is about race.
How do you think it came about?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/common-words-phrases-racist-o... :
> The symbolism of white as positive and black as negative is pervasive in our culture. Watts-Jones has highlighted many terms with negative meanings that reference blackness. In the English language, she wrote in 2004, color is “related to extortion (blackmail), disrepute (black mark), rejection (blackball), banishment (blacklist), impurity (‘not the driven snow’) and illicitness (black market).”
> > black ops
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101110054644A... :
> Consequently, it becomes apparent that 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' really means - Call to Arms against the Black People
You thought you were joking, weren't you? The latter link might be sarcasm, but at this point, it's actually hard to tell.