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A common misconception of racism is the belief that you can invert a situation to show its hypocrisy.
The problem with whiteness is in its crisis of identity. We only know whiteness as it compares to other races, and usually in the context of cultural and social dominance. Until white-centric political and cultural discourse can move beyond such topics as racial purity and disgruntled white men's misguided grievances, we cannot view black journalism and other cultural products as being anything remotely equal. The sames goes for First Nations, Asian, and other groups who have been known to publish from these perspectives.
This is why I view the attempted effect of the OP as fallacious. There is nothing racist with what Obama's team has done. The publications expelled were done so because a) they endorsed McCain, and b) they wanted to make room for other journalists. These journalists were picked because of the significance of this moment in black history.
I don't see how this is racist. The "double standard" doesn't make it racist because all things are not equal here.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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