Stitch up. Given the ethnicities of viable presidential candidates in the US, any white person that felt the need to state they preferred a white leader almost certainly would be racist. It’s understandable that other groups might have a representation based incentive and that’s a much more complicated influence than ‘we are the same shade of brown’.
I don’t know how they can chat so much and yet mean so little, and still be so bizarrely antagonistic about it all.