I agree with this. One of the characters can be easily interpreted as albino, which affects all races, last names can be explained by intermarriage or *gasp* the very common choice of changing a last name to appear more white, which is really, really common in the US. I think Hussy tried to create a blank slate, but people jumped on him because they wanted to assume he was racist. The characters are literally- literally- white. As in the color white. The blending of all colors. Stop trying to create this idea that because you want to target the guy as racist, it automatically makes him racist.