It is a natural phenomena that the contrast in colours will be more prominent if opposing colors changes in intensity. For example, if black and white is placed next to each other, the white color will be projecting if the black color darkens or deepens. It is also in natural justice that if evil is used to suppress righteousness, the strength of righteousness will be re-inforced. So, Buddha in his teaching, we should harmonized the colors in us and follow the middle path and that is why the color grey is considered as the perfect color in the religion.
In Buddhism, the opposing colors is like the working of the karma. If you do a lot of "black" , the color of the karma is getting darker and if you do a lot of good things which benefits your self and others, then the white color will dilute the black and move it to the grey color. It does not mean that we intentionally do a lot of evil and we gave money to charity to cleanse the black colors. Everything have to be natural and move in nature's way. If you have unintentionally do some wrong things , then we have to accept it and learn to avoid it and move back to the white side.
The next question you asked is why can't we have pure white. Yes, pure white is another extreme, like pure black. The status of pure white is unattainable or unmanageable and for the layman, grey is the moderating way which is achievable and can be easily maintain. That is the reason,when we hurt our self or hurt other people, we become remorseful and we repent. This is the natural instinct but for some, this natural healing process have been damaged by past experience and bad influence and they shift deeper into the black.
In Buddhism, we believe in the work of the karma . The bad will invite the bad and the white will gather the white. Both these contrasting forces is constantly at work to neutralized each other in cosmic world or in our internal self. If we realized it, we are a ware of it and we can work on it to be a better person.
Namaste.
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