An airplane is going down...
... so the pilot gets on the intercom and says "we have too much weight, we are going to have to throw off everybody's luggage."
But, afterwards they are still going down... So, the pilot says "Alright, I'm sorry to inform you that we are going to have to start throwing people off of the plane, we'll go in A, B, C order..."
"Africans, any Africans?" Nobody stands up.
"Okay, black people, any black people?" Nobody stands up.
"Colored people, any colored?" Still …