Light is an important symbol in the creation story. Light is daylight, light is a symbol of hope, holiness and goodness, but white skin versus black skin or brown skin is not suggested here in any way, unless one was KKK or some loony alt-rightist: "Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from darkness. God called the light "day" and the darkness he called "night". Thus evening came, and morning followed, the first day." (The New American Bible)
Here again God created cosmos out of chaos, or something out of nothing. Darkness is night time, and it symbolically a symbol of despair, alienation, loneliness or apartness from God and is the epicenter for evil.
God is the uniting agent and humans in the world must partake physically and spiritually more in the realms of light than in the dominion of darkness, but they must inhabit both. Note that God sets up this dualism but the dualism is identifiable and operates within one world, whose creator started it, and is in it, but is not conterminous with it, either as the Mother or the Father.
Let me now quote the same verses from my King James Version: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and morning were the first day."
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