I don't think so. That was dealt with initially in Star Trek years ago. It is the crassness and inappropriateness of both incidents which make my nose crinkle.
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.
But now that you mention it, I do have to wonder why the perpetrators of both incidents, white and black, were so willing to play into outdated miscegenation stereotypes. Justin Timberlake, white boy, takin' what he wants from a black woman, isn't that nice and original. And Nicolette Sheridan might as well have said "Pleasure me, Mandingo!" to that ballplayer whose name escapes me.
That is pretty sick, but on the part of the performers---not the people who objected to the performance.
I don't think so. My hubby is far from a prude and he was watching the half-time show with the kids (11/12) when he saw it. I think that the part that he wasn't pleased about was that there was no opportunity to do *anything* to prevent them seeing a stripshow. The kids were more shocked and scandalized than we were and it bugged him that now we had to have a "talk" with the kids when there should've been no need.
And all that from an ultra-nonreligious agnostic who just loves his kids.