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second screen shot in first posting shows the entry "Text".
Changing foreground color of this to white should do it.

Text was already White. So was Characters.

Oddly enough, if you do something like make Selected Text be a dark grey color background and White for the Foreground the text is ...

I am having exactly the same issue. I cannot figure out how to get actual white for my text.

I too am still on 4.7.3, but based on what I see about 5.3.1 I may upgrade as well.