Melanin isn't the deciding factor either. Despite the excessive dividing up of the human race these days there are really only 3 primary races:

Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negroid. Colloquially, Asian, White and Black. After that is it mixes and subcategories of race and, more prominently, cultures. Faber would have been more accurate saying Western European culture or European culture instead of White and it would have been less inflammatory. You can say very little favorable about "White" people or people with white skin these days without being crucified as a racist. It is idiotic.