When the various rules were written that constructed our current society that enables the existence of cable networks and free high schools in every commonwealth country and Western -Judeo Christian society, they were written by white people in Europe mostly but Rousseau was there as a person of colour as well as Dumas and Pushkin was all the way in Russia; so cool! What does this mean? They were some of the notables but there were other people of colour( you don't see this in the movies that much though) who lived quite normal and quiet lives who celebrated their writing as piano teachers and in other unique roles possibly as members of the Baptist union or as employees of great establishments.  The law would have applied to them equally since human chattel was not a phenomenon in Europe as seen in the more ignorant U.S. colonial south populated by Louis the 16th's ex-cons and a few sincere quarter-white creoles from the Caribbean.  I enjoyed a lot of education. The fiction of the past as seen in movies is not helpful though.  But, I  am applying the readings humbly just in case the answers are pleasing to the quarter white and fully white teacher but bothersome to the person sitting beside me who had to be taught quite resentfully the need for political correctness.  Equations have to balance and there is no need for anyone to get upset; innit?

-Author Unknown-