No.
It didn't even occur to me in either scenario. I heard a discussion on cable recently about the MNF incident and they brought up the interracial aspect of the intro and I thought "Oh, yeah, I hadn't noticed".
Really.
What had people upset was the explicit sexuality. It wasn't Janet's breast being exposed, I always point out. It was Timberlake's aggressive exposure of it and the whole routine leading up to him stripping her.
Same with the MNF skit being sexually explicit.
No, I'm sorry, but race has nothing to do with it. Most of us didn't even take notice of that part.
The older I get, the more I admire (flawed but human) Martin Luther King. I too dream of a color-blind society where every person is judged upon the contents of his heart and head. What a shame that what passes for black leaders today are more racist than the Klan, and won't let America forget about racism, which I honestly think we could if they would spend more time acting like Bill Cosby and encouraging their people to act responsibly, get a good education, and act like families.
Ghandi freed his people from British oppression not by whining about how oppressed they were and that they could never achive, but by encouraging them to be responsible humans that impressed the British and shamed them into acting responsibly towards them. I think we would be a color-blind society today if black "leaders" did the same to their followers, rather than blaming everything on everybody else. I have observed far more black racists in my forty-plus years than I have seen white racists.
There was a radio personality a few years ago who was being beaten up over the "Reparations" movement. He made the following statement: "I will give you and your friends a thousand dollars each for every day you have been a slave, and a thousand dollars each for every day I have ever owned slaves."
I dream of the day MLK dreamed of.