You cant be fukkin serious with this response.
So you mean to tell me if Steven Mnuchin made that hypothetical comment to a black economics reporter, it would matter to you that a couple of white economics reporters asked him about unrelated topics beforehand, and the black reporter was one of the first to ask him a sound, economically-rooted question (I guess it would be lost on you that he would be insultingly feigning surprise that a black person was serious and focused)?
Your splitting hairs and spin job is comical. You seriously want me to believe you'd say that since Mnuchin doesnt have a "de facto" history of bitterly insulting blacks and black intelligence, we should give him a complete pass when he finally does so explicitly?
Im assuming you're a huge fan of Cam's. If your stanhood is interfering in your appraisal of his words today, and causing cognitive dissonance, then fine. But intellectual dishonesty is not much of a separation from outright stupidity.