Eugene knows next to nothing about racial conflict in this community.   It isn't that prejudice is hard or low in Eugene, we just don't have a significantly sized black community of residents.    Our prejudice is never challenged outside of our normal ideological/partisan battles.   CMD is clearly offering a negetive stereotype and the bias is clear.  Even at that, one foolish comment by CMD has zero effect on meeting the challenge in racially diverse cities(black in particular).