Racer,
Again, you work too hard at being a dick. I don't think it comes natural to you, so - I've said this before - you should rechannel your approach to posting.
I believe his parents are Egyptian, but he comes from a two family home. His Dad works in the film business. He grew up in the City. His "accent" is just a typical Bronx accent. It is not race-specific. I just assume an Egyptian kid has to earn his stripes playing pickup in NYC. I did 25 years ago when I walked on the court looking like a douchebag that had just graduated from Wake Forest (not entirely true - it took me about 4 or 5 years to make my way to the city after graduating).
There is a certain cultural reality to pickup hoops in the city. I didn't shy from it, but I certainly wasn't embraced either. There's not too many places in American society where African-American (and in the Bronx, Latin culture as well) dominate, "own" the space, and write the rules. A basketball court in urban NYC is one of those places. Rightfully so in my book. You don't share the little turf you're allowed with "other" cultures or people from other cultures unless they earn it. That's just reality. It makes perfect sense to me why that is so. I didn't really earn that respect, to be honest. Not enough game, but I lingered and tried for three or four years, playing 2X a week - mostly in the East Village Thompkins Square Park run where there were 3 or 4 games going simultaneously, but also up in Harlem where my gf lived, over on the West 4th street court, a court down on Houston street, over on the West Side Highway when they put that one in - 2X a week, sometimes 3. My minimal attributes that worked at Wake didn't really serve me there. But I didn't embarrass myself either [that I remember].
Anyway, having married into "other" and raising a son who is identified by the American public as a black kid, I've managed a few thoughts on race and identity. If you want to have that conversation somewhere, happy to have it, but just know when you try and bait me with "racist undertones" I do have some experiences to share you may or may not be aware of. Again, happy to go there.