Perhaps. I live in Thugland...oops...Oakland. Not long ago I was walking on the sidewalk and met a 20-something black man coming toward me. As we passed he turned to me and said “Barack Obama” in a fairly aggressive manner. I don’t think it was his intent to engage me in political discourse.
If he’d said Pac-man Jones,there would have been discourse!
You should have turned around and said back to him, “David Duke.”