They’re making excuses for this black man because we live in a racist society that categorizes all black men the same, therefore by defending him or making excuses for his behaviors, they are defending themselves. That’s really all it is. 
To give marketing something to talk about on a Truck that was basically unchanged for a decade.
Actually is pretty much the same truck you could buy in the early 2010s, but now with weird gimmicky shit like a table.
Before anyone says it's novel: A column shifter, or button shifter literally anywhere else in the truck would've solved the same problem.