I’m pretty sure they would have thrown the nuts at a WHITE CNN employee and said the same thing. It’s CNN not someone’s skin tone that was the target here.
If these people were actual GOPers, they were probably drunk and were expressing their opinion of the press in general...and ironically, the fact that they would treat blacks the same as whites has laid them open to the dread charge of “racism.”
That said, nobody needs to be represented by that kind of juvenile behavior, even it it wasn’t “racist,” and the convention people acted correctly by throwing them out.