I'm pretty sure Casey uses an older version of emacs, you could try downgrading to it and maybe that would fix it. I faintly recall Casey mentioning something about errors in new versions or something of the sort.
If you're getting an error before the line in the .emacs that sets the color scheme that color scheme will be the default one, which is usually white and other colors.
PS. You should upgrade to 4coder anyways :P