What’s in white that everyone is attracted to? Purity? Cleanliness? Let me rephrase the question. What’s in black that it now associated with ugliness and dark influences? While we don’t say anything against it, we don’t prefer it. By the way, I am still talking about beaches.
Black sand found in beaches usually consists of tiny fragments of lava; that means the area is near a volcano. But these black beaches I’ve been to give no hint that the area is volcanic.