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First...this is true. Entirely. Saw it in the newspapers and heard it from comedian Mark Russell during a show of his that I worked on.

It seems that recently on the "Today" show, there was a white female guest who was going to demonstrate self-defense she taught. She had brought along one of her instructors, a black male, to be the "attacker" for the demonstration. The staff at "Today" freaked, and insisted on replacing the man, explaining that they could not be a party to such racist stereotyping.

The replaced the man with Bryant Gumbel.

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