It’s not white. It’s OFF white. Reddish, orange, with a hint of burnt wood.
The main point of the article: “Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people”. We’re supposed to stop thinking that.
Point that it doesn’t make: Natural selection favored light skin in northern countries, but it also favored high intelligence, so as to survive in a harsh climate, unlike in Africa, where no intelligence is needed to survive. That intelligence led to the development of a civilization, unlike in Africa, where the only verneer of civilization that they have came from colonial Europeans.
Actually there were cities/large towns in parts of Africa below the Sahara that had cities of 50,000 and more before the European slavers and colonialists came in. Actually, some rulers in those cities captured Africans in the bush to sell to the European and Arab slavers.