white belt

A new student is appointed to the tenth kyu (step), or initial white belt stage.

He decided to stay and clean the floor, as he had done when he was a white belt.

For example students holding a white belt who pass the exam for high white, will wear a yellow stripe on their white belt.

And in this white belt borderland between the black belt South and the free labor North, few whites lamented that the slave drain continued to thin blacks out of their area and to thicken the institution in the most southern South, repeating the turtle-slow erosion of slavery in the most southern North between 1776 and 1830