I still would argue it’s racist, because they could have done the work, but made the choice to just throw up what they thought was the right person. Can you even identify a time that happened with a high profile white person? LIke, did someone mistake Judy Woodruff or Diane Sawyer in place of Barbara Walters today? Of course not! Or mistake Benedict for Francis? That would be absurd, and so is this, I’d argue. If it does happen with a white person, I promise you that the person responsible would at the very least get a talking to if not lose their job, and that wouldn’t happen again… The ONLY reason this is happening is because of race and profession of the person in question. 
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