Sure.  I mean, to me cosplay is about cosplaying characters you love and having fun.  And if I want people to accept me cosplaying white characters, I should give the same respect.  I don’t like this idea of characters belonging to a certain group, like back when I cosplayed Chouji from Naruto someone was like, “Ugh I hate it when skinny people cosplay him he’s ours.”  These characters don’t belong to us.  Cosplay is our way of showing our love for these characters that someone else created.  If we’re going to be like, “this character can only be cosplayed by this group,” then we’re going to have to do that with EVERYTHING, which means:

Girls can’t cosplay boys.

Black people can’t cosplay white people.

Gay people can’t cosplay straight people.

Plus sized people can’t cosplay skinny people.

And vice versa, and at that point it would just be way too nitpicky and it wouldn’t be fun, I mean what’s to stop someone from being like, “Well in the manga this character is very religious and you said you don’t believe in God so YOU CAN’T COSPLAY THEM THAT BELONGS TO THE CHRISTIANS!”  Just… can we not?