the arabs are proud of their black skin. if he says why is that when she says soandso is a hybrid and a bright and white and a radiant one? we say she does not mean by this the whiteness of the skin rather she means by it the nobility and purity of the essence. khadr muharrib was proud that she was black and blacks among the arabs are green. ashshamakh ibn dirar said
والعرب تفخر بسواد اللون. فإن قال فعلام ذلك وهي تقول فلان هجان، وأزهر وأبيض، وأغر؟ قلنا ليس تريد بهذا بياض الجلد، إنما تريد به كرم الجوهر ونقاءه. وقد فخرت خضر محارب بأنها سود، والسود عند العرب الخضر. وقال الشماخ بن ضرار