break-in(?)

The thing is, if the OP had omitted the perp's race, would this thread have been inundated with requests for said information?

"HHH you said the guy was in your house trespassing, but what I really need to know at the moment is what was his ethnic beckground?"

But would some-one really ask such a question, unless it was OB? No, they'd ask "What did he look like?" and the response would obviously be "He was a black geezer"