Great representation of religious nuts and racist blacks

Yes, I know where you are getting this, and there is a small grain of truth to it, but still. You must be referring to Norton's defensive denial of what the locals (i.e. provincial white people) were telling him about the monsters and then to his ill advised departure with at least one or two other black people? That this is a headline about 'racist blacks' in your mind, and not more of an understandable failure of trust (a function of fear, born of past experience, and not of a primary racism), I find rather telling. I suspect a Trump supporter who feels that reverse racism is a headline threat to national character and security? Or am I reading too much into this? (This is not to say that only whits can be racist, obviously there is a lot of mindless hate, prejudice, and understandable mistrust, on both sides.)

Norton, BTW, was a big city lawyer, vacationing in a provincial area, and had already had a feud of some sort with Drayton. His incredulity was likely as much a product of the feud and of his alienated urbane sensibility as it was race based. That one or two other black people left with him might be interpreted as 'useless division' but even if a few black people, perhaps friends or acquaintances of Norton, perhaps also outsiders who had no basis of trust in Drayton and the other dolts who were talking about tentacles, were a little more swayed by his persuasive rhetoric than the 'white people' does not seem worthy of the 'racist' tag.

I can agree with you that the extreme PC police might take exception to the idea that ANY form of defensiveness about being 'black' exists at all, which is just silly, and that movies usually prefer to play it safe and steer away from that entirely. Perhaps that is all you were trying to say, if so then OK, yes, to a degree.