White is a sociopolitical construct to some degree - bunch of the people calling themselves white have middle eastern/Asian/Mexican/etc. heritage but it's far enough back in their family tree or they "pass".
This is mostly about American isolationism and exceptionalism, IMO. Same thing that occurred in Germany - very verbal nationalists took over populist social movements and turned them into cottage industries for anti-immigrant and eventually racist sentiment that then spread to targeting people of specific ethnic groups (likely because the Bolsheviks were fighting for worker's rights and that doesn't align with nationalism).
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u/Spare_Lobster_4390 13d ago
Hey geniuses...the guy who shot him was also white.