Great catch. You followed the money, and found the real agenda. Can you imagine a lawyer holding up a skin tone chart next to his plaintiff, and asking the jury to award based on his match to a lighter or darker color? Are we really that far off into the Twilight Zone at this point?
So the research will be used as a science prop in skin-tone lawsuits. Gee, I wonder where the funding for the professor's grant came from?