Though you could argue that black could be both the absence of color or all the colors blended together.
It just depends on what you are talking about. I was talking about the way you can mix all the colors, as in paint or crayons, and make black.
Not light, because all colors of light that are mixed become white.
I wasn't even trying to pick a fight.
All I said was that they are shades, which they are.
You had to go into detail and what not.