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The whole "it's okay to be white" thing is a dogwhistle to begin with. It might seem benign, if weirdly unprompted without context. The issue is that among some groups this is often followed up with accusing black movements and immigrants of wanting to get rid of white people, rather than just seeking equality, which is done to fuel racism. This is why a lot of black people might be suspicious of that statement. Nevermind that not agreeing with it might simply mean unsure rather than against.
This whole thing is a roundabout rhetorical play to bait people who are more afraid of being accused of being racist, you know, because racism is bad, than understand that racism has a whole history, that black people have good reasons to be wary of people who are a little too proud of being white. But detached white people might be fooled by a superficial read of "why is it okay to be you but not okay to be me, maybe you are the racist".
If anything he proved that he is exactly the kind of white guy that black people might be worried about. He doesn't care about them unless he's on the "winning team" and gets a reward for it.
See, the thing is it's totally fine to be proud of being white. You can be proud of your family, region, native country, language, whatever. Plenty of people go visit where their family is from.
The problem is dummies (who actually know nothing about their heritage) thinking skin color means you're better than someone. That's probably caused by a lack of information about heritage. Especially in the US, black people are like 25% white. That means a lot of Southern white people have black relatives.
Why would anybody be proud of their skin colour?
If you think of yourself as Scottish and are proud of Scottish culture and things Scots have done, that's one thing. Especially if you think you were raised with Scottish culture and it shaped who you are today. Same with pride in a religion, or a family, or who knows what. But, pride in a skin colour is ridiculous.