Black or White?

The Fool is certain that astute Randomly Placed readers have heard of the pointless movie called Madagascar in which a certain pathetic zebra named Marty suffers an identity crisis. Am I white with black stripes, he asks, or black with white stripes? Astonishingly enough, The Fool cared enough for the wellbeing of dear Marty of Central Park Zoo to trek all the way to a science centre in warm and sunny Florida seeking an answer to the question of a zebra's race: