Masking with brush problem

Why in mask with brush set to white it makes parts erased with black reappear, but especially black isnt black anymore, with closer look I can see "tiles" of background....when I use Lasso tool on the same area and "delete" it while having set black color, the black on the image is "black" again...is there some way to get it "black" with brush too ?
Maybe I searched wrong keywords or just didnt know what to search, but I didnt find anyone asking about this problem.
Thanks

Looking at your screenshot, I think it may be because you have your color settings to "Grayscale Slider". If you are working on this image for the web you can change the color settings to "RGB Slider" or "CMYK Slider", for example. Basically, as long as you have it set on "Grayscale Slider" you will only get grayscale colors.
You can change this setting by clicking the dropdown in the Color tab in the upper right side of your screen. See image below. Let me know if this helps.

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