News media is very selective over how certain stories are covered.

Most people keep a running list of people in limelight who were caught using slurs...Alec is on the list along with Madonna, Eminem, Charlie Sheen,etc. You have to dig to find reports of these comments but that's more about powerful agents/studios protecting their interests.

It's an easier sell for the media to paint a white Southerner as a racist for using the same words, but people who are awake know that there is no difference. F all of them.