That’s not going to save the Republican from the unfair accusation of racism by a racist f*ckhead. Don’t you know? melanin wipes out White Guilt, and so the person with melanin can do anything he wants to do, and is never considered racist. But if Whitey does the same thing, he has no melanin to wipe out his White Guilt, and so his a$$ is reamed.
No, politics is even more important. He would not be "allowed" to advocate, support, or defend anything or anyone that is conservative.
A white Democrat will be treated far more leniently. Imagine all the attention if a Republican had Robert Byrd's history.