"Rebecca was a remarkable candidate, but it was clear that Randal should win - and he did."

Rebecca was not remotely remarkable. Attractive, articulate, gritty, yes, but not remarkable. There are far too many people who bested her in every season of the show, and specifically in this season.

"So please please please everyone stop bringing up the race issue - it obscures the facts of what really happened and does a disservice to those cases where racism really is involved (which of course still does happen sadly)."

Race obscures nothing here, it shines a light on the crux of this entire debacle. It provides the framework from where The Donald's racist comments about blacks and Jews sprang--comments that he has not refuted. He only told Larry King that it was "inappropriate" to bring race into this discussion. How can it be inappropriate when apparently his attitudes about blacks and Jews tells everything about his hiring patterns within the Trump organisation?

If The Donald completely repudiates the statements that he made in the book, then I will feel differently about this entire set of developments.

Randal and Marshawn and other black candidates will likely feel differently as well. They probably read these blogs, and they probably know about the horrible statements that The Donald made against blacks and Jews in that book. Larry King certainly knew something.

The rest of America needs to know that The Donald's yammering about meritocracy has nothing to do with his true feelings toward minorities.

--Singer