"The View" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar suggested on Wednesday that certain words needed to be changed because they carried connotations with the words "white" or "black." Goldberg kicked things off by suggesting that people should stop calling Broadway the "Great White Way" and instead call it the "great bright way." As Goldberg noted, the "Great White Way" moniker refers to the lights on Broadway -- specifically, when electric lights were installed in 1880. "Why is a black sheep a bad thing and a white sheep is a good thing? "Black sheep" is a phrase widely used to describe an outcast or someone different from the "in" group.
Source: Fox News June 24, 2020 18:22 UTC