No people, regardless of skin coloration, skull index or brain volume, were "made" from apes.
There is irrefutable evidence that humans and apes had common ancestors, evidence not in the shape of bones of a missing link but in the shape of shared genetic and developmental (in the formation of the embryo) characteristics.
There is as irrefutable evidence that none of the modern apes that inhabit our planet today are ancestors of the modern humans.
"White people" are descended from black people who bred from a limited gene pool in an environment where little sun light and cold climate favoured people whose skin had a high ultraviolet uptake and longer noses. In times of malnutrition, this slight advantage in access to Vitamin D may have been the difference between a healthy individual and a sickly individual to choose between for mating.
Leaving aside the question whether evolution is based on random events, planned divergences by an active creator or morphic resonance, fact is that selective breeding is an accepted method to emphasize traits in a race.
Among humans, who changed independent wolves into trustful dogs (not without cooperation from the first wolves-turning-into-dogs) and fierce aurochs into rather tame milk cows the idea of breeding themselves is ancient, too.
Blood relation to successful leaders were selected as leaders just by this virtue, maybe because for some time the successful leaders did produce able offspring.
Less able offspring then managed to insist on that tradition, and the concept of inheritable nobility was born.