This is not just a black-white thing.

Byrnes understood he'd split up with a black woman, a deputy chief in department, no less, as if the black-white thing wasn't difficult enough.

"Putting the Mayor on trial has explosive potential to become a black-white thing," Mr. Jackson warned.

'Everyone loves the book, but some people have a problem with the black-white thing,' " an employee told her. "

His fear was not a simple black-white thing.

What kind of black-white thing?

"I didn't like a part of the movie because it made too much of the black-white thing," he said.

Maybe Sayers was right, that there was too much made of "the black-white thing."

"This is not a black-white thing," he said.

"This is not a black-white thing," Jesus LaRosa said.