You don't think having a black character that "identifies as white" and according to the article makes his boss happy to have met his diversity quota is politic

You don't think having a black character that "identifies as white" and according to the article makes his boss happy to have met his diversity quota is political? I liked Dilbert a long time ago (90s-early 00s, where I saw it as kind of a window into adult work life as a teenager).