Racist

Just heard an interview of showrunner's roundtable and the issue of diversity came up. Daniels said that on empire he will essentially only accept script's from black writers as only they can truly write and represents African Americans on screen. He further went on to state that he even had to turn down great scripts from other writers, because they were not black. To make matters worse he started aggressively demanding what is the ratio of black to white writers in the showrunners writers room. Does anyone else think this is incredibly racist? I am shocked this guy still has a career. I can only imagine the outrage that would be released if the races were reversed. And how is it any of his business what race people are in other showrunners writers room.