Bloody 'ell! lastime I saw this much gripin' was when P5 came out. You see where the little black arrow is sitting? well, hit that button and things will revert to white text on black. If you want custom colors use your fav paint program to get the code of your prefered text and back combo and enter them in the white boxes under the text and background color lines.

Why shouldn't speech be free? Very little of it is worth anything.