First of all, I'm not at all convinced that the white male reporter is necessarily a racist himself. He's a professional "news" entertainer performing to a target audience.
I also think it's splitting hairs to discuss whether or not that was racism, because it was so incredibly stupid and the logic, if followed, would lead to racism anyway, even if it is not racism in itself.
By the male reporters logic, only a person without any personal experience on racism would be suitable to handle a case with strong racial tensions.
Given the explosive situation in Ferguson, this is just laughably stupid.
It would also mean that only (very few, very privileged) white people could ever handle a racially charged case, which would obviously be racism.
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