Interesting arguments, but the point of view that a black background can't save any energy is now out of date from what I can tell, at least for mobile phones. On AMOLED based screens you can use multiple times less power with a black background instead of white! OLED based devices are growing in popularity and are in broad use now. Most other popular display types save power too displaying black like CRTs and plasma screens. As for LCDs, many of them do have negligible differences but no harm is done displaying black over white. There's more info on it all at
Black Google Mobile which hosts a black Google for phones.