THIS!! This right here!

Sure, we could say that... if it were even remotely accurate.

He’s an unrepentant mass murder who kills FBI Agents, Police, and any innocent who gets in his way.

Thank you! Hell if Light was anything but white in this setting it wouldn’t work as Lights biggest advantage in the manga is his privilege. Nobody looks at him oddly (like they do L, a foreigner) because he’s a majority. For that too work in an American context he NEEDS to be White.