you got any link for that by any chance?
When you look at the concept arts and the first teasings of the character, you can see that at first he was designed to be indisputably "black", which makes sense whatever history you subscribe too since he's a Medjay and Medjay are Nubians. But as time passed and racist gamers put pressure on their neck, they changed his appearance to make him look more "arab" and appease these people.
Then people push the "we was kangz and shyt" racist rhetoric and here is the final look...
To me that is prime example of modern whitewashing of history. Even if they didn't make him white, they changed that shyt to make white people comfortable.
This is even more stupid when you know, like I said, that he's supposed to be
Nubian and that according to the alt-right "historians", Nubians had nothing to do with Ancient Egyptians and were indeed black. But white ego can be a fragile thing...