its the white....
The term is Oriental. Asian is too broad. Is he a Siberian Eskimo? And Iranian? A Saudi? Yemen? India? Indonesia? Oriental tells me far eastern Chinese/Japanese/Korean area.
There actually are “ban the van” memes ... there’s even a Change.org “ban the van” petition:
Here’s more, specifically on ‘white’ vans ....
A Facebook rumor about white vans is spreading fear across America
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/tech/facebook-white-vans/index.html
And there are comments like this on various forums:
“I’ve been a proponent of banning vans for years. Too many dangerous people drive vans. Especially white vans. Pedophiles, smugglers, hippies, expediters, rapists, mother stabbers and other assorted evil deed doers. Finally the mayor of Baltimore and FaceBook have gotten the ban the van message out to the public.”
https://www.expeditersonline.com/forums/threads/ban-the-van.72597/
Don’t forget Cesar Sayoc, who sent pipe bombs to Hillary, Obama, Biden and others…white van!
The DC snipers weren’t in a van. They were in a blue sedan with a shooting hole cut into the rear of the trunk lid.