I would have said that....The black description didn't or doesn't make the story anymore nail biting. He thought it would, obviously, as to think a black guy knocking on your door at 1am would have some kind of mind numbing ending that a white guy doing the same thing, wouldn't. Go figure, but it wasn't my door, so I don't care.
Kinda like my thread with the kids walking thru my yard. Would it have made a better story if I said "black kids" keep walking thru....no. The story alone was descriptive enough.