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I actually went to the comments section to see what the ultra-liberal, race-obsessed readers of Salon had to say. Surprisingly, many of the comments were in this vein:

Exactly. I went to the video expecting to see confirmation of my prejudice that the dumb right-wingers were just freaking out because the winners didn't look or sound like the winners of the past. But when I watched the actual video, it changed my opinion. The "debate" was so intellectually incoherent and utterly off-topic that I would have taken it as a deliberately racist parody if I hadn't known it was real. In fact, it would have seemed like a particularly heavy-handed racist parody.... Like something put together by a reactionary who thought so little of black academics that he imagined all they were able to do is babble out PC catch phrases with stylized inflection, interspersed with profanity.