I think we are beyond tokens.
The winners last season and the Blacks this season were just good folk.
I didn;t even think about their race, except the slight clumsiness with their family name.
Good folk are good folk -- color is unimportant. The Paolo's are NOT good folk and will fall soon.
There are always certain "tokens" in some of these reality TV shows. Amazing Race has a token black and usually a token gay.