You might not like the way he says it, but go back and read the article:

    Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the 
    company didn’t develop a better film for rendering 
    different gradations of brown until economic pressure 
    came from a very different source: Kodak’s professional
    accounts. Two of their biggest clients were chocolate 
    confectioners, who were dissatisfied with the film’s 
    ability to render the difference between chocolates of 
    different darknesses. “Also,” Connor says, “furniture 
    manufacturers were complaining that stains and wood 
    grains in their advertisement photos were not true to life.”

How is that not racist? The film wasn't an issue when it was just people of colour coming out poorly, but when it's chocolate and furniture being badly exposed, then they develop a new film.