Should our new governor give in to pressure and become a racist?

My state, Ohio, recently elected Republican John Kasich as governor. Kasich represented Ohio in Congress from 1983 until 2001.
His running mate was female. This is not surprising since he has stated from the start that he will not use race or gender as a “metric” for cabinet appointees.

This seems to mean that he intends to be “color blind” which is what most objective, intelligent and thus virtuous people are these days.

He is under pressure from the Ohio Black Caucus because currently he has no black people in his cabinet. The OBC is threatening to sue the governor, and take action through the EOC, the Civil Rights Commission, and other agencies, including federal agencies. ( I will not get into a discussion about the fact that you can just about count on one hand the number of black Ohio republicans, nor about the fact that as governor he can appoint whomever he chooses.)

So the governor has a choice. Continue to be color blind, or hire a person to his cabinet simply because of the color of their skin.

But making a judgement based solely on skin color would be racist.

Thus the governor would openly declare that he was abandoning his color blind status in favor of being racist.

Would you become a racist, simply to get the OBC off of you back?