He is right. I also think that he is a white apologist, who has a tinge of "the beta". Maybe having a black son with a black woman made him realize the realities of black male's situation in America, something that he was ignorant to before. But, at the same time his son is light skinned, which is why he hoped it garnered him some sort of reprieve. The child being light skinned will be thought of as "less black" (or less authentic). And yes, unwittingly feeding into the growing colorism that has plagued black folk in the Americas.
Yet, he doesn't go into the "black men are feared" stereotype, which really came on the scene roughly around the 60s, but for the same reason black men are feared--for their "physicality", black men have been admired, and sexualized.
I get that he is concerned, but I also get a whiff of trying to appease to black folk with the "I now know your pain" routine. Which to me is disingenuous.