Yes on both accounts. The subtext of the narrative coming from the current defilers of the White House is that it's open seson on whitey. Do what you must.
Yes, which is why I, for one, dismiss out of hand the candidacy of Herman Cain. He may be the greatest candidate since sliced bread, but a large segment of the black community will NOT understand what it means, but rather continue to interpret it as "it's a black planet".
They need to get a very different message, one that in part must be delivered by a member of the majority culture reasserting our control.