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You're missing the point. The point is that their roommate was white, and therefore responsible for the actions of every member of their race reaching back for as long as the punchline requires. It's a funny joke, because if you do it with another skin color you are cancelled.
Oh, here I thought it was a history joke in the same vein as saying "My American roommate moved out and took all the oil with him. How do I tell him it's just cooking oil?"
Clearly this is actually a condemnation of the roommate's Inferior White Bloodline and his Ancestral Guilt.
Are we allowed to make jokes about national heritage now, too? Cause I've got some zingers about my old Middle Eastern roommate, but they've been bombing...
If your national Heritage is colonization and slavery... Oof...