Anyone who lives here knows this guy is obviously counting middle easterners and indians as white.”
Well, they are, except for any who might be Dravidian.
“Caucasian” covers far more than Europeans.
And 'black' (in the same scientific categorization as 'Caucasian') covers who?
I understand that middle easterners are considered caucasian in the strict anthropological sense, but its obvious thats not the context the writer uses here - he's clearly referring to 'white' people in the 'community activist' sense.