Why is paper white and not brown or black?

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If paper is made from trees and trees are primarily brown, why is the vast majority of paper I see white?
 
They die the paper white.

and if you look closely sometimes, you can see some of the bark left behind..
 
I clicked on this cause I thought it was a raciest joke.... anyway, my paper is green, your collectin' the wrong kind.
 
non treated paper wouldnt be white... if you've ever made your own paper its generally a tan-ish color... its turned white through a bleaching process...

i mean c'mon think about it... how hard would it be to read something written on a black piece of paper? now thats just silly lol
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Paper makers are racists.

No, for real. Paper is white because graphite is black and you can't write on black paper with black pencil, can you? Well, you can but you won't be able to see what you write. Anyway, when you cut paper so thin from the trees you get white. It's like...the tree is so condensed and when you begin to cut away little pieces it changes from dark to light. I don't know. I'm just ramling with my theories at 4 in the morning...
 
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