The funny thing about C&SD's notion is that appearing predominantly Asian, he's arguably even "whiter" in most American racial calculus.
Maybe he works hard to offset it with a ghettoish swagger and ebonics in his public life. (shrug)
The hard part is how to promote one's self as both a ex-criminal and a ultra-.gov-brownoser simultaneously, so they can perpetually engage in a self-referential "appeal to authority"-debate fallacy on any topics revolving around crime, police, and civil rights. I mean, it's
easy on the internet in text, but IRL it must be much more difficult.
It's not exactly the kind of thing they make a t-shirt or a badge for. OTOH, those Cafe Press kind of places can be of immense help in these matters.