I do not want to appear to be disrespectful, but I find the idea of traffic signal, which involves, I assume, a lighted white male figure against a black frame and pole to be racist, to be absurd. You could conceivably paint the traffic signal frame and pole white, but then you would have a white world surrounding a black lighted figure, which I actually think wouldn’t work anyway as night fell, because light cannot penetrate a black plastic or glass figure and allow light to pass through and be seen by those in the intersection or coming toward it.

The color black is greater than an ethnicity of human beings. It is as significant as the opposite of day, it is night, and in that darkness there is a hiddenness of being. Darkness tends to make one fearful. This emotional affect is real. But, it is also apart of life, and equally welcome.