emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>]

I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble.
I had two lines in .emacs

;;(set-background-color "black")
;;(set-foreground-color "white")

which I commented after getting
user@site:~$ emacs
Undefined color: "black"
user@site:~$

it didn't make any difference, so I assume that the settings way for emacs 
have changed, and that gnome has somewhere stored the default setting which 
overrides any other in .emacs
Is this the case? I am clueless here. I haven't tried much either,
hoping that someone knows and can point the problem. Is late.
Thanks 2 all
AR