marco polo
The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow.
For they say that God and all the saints are black and the devils are all white. That is why they portray them as I have described.” – Marco Polo (1254-1324), after visiting the Pandyan Kingdom in 1288