The racial connotation in this case seems obvious, indeed.

The project has no political dimension, nor did we intend it to have any political connotation.

She wants people to have a positive connotation to the words, Somalia, Mogadishu, and East Africa.

He gets busted selling guns to federal officers, among many, many, many other departures from our normative behavior.

Relly Jehato, who blogs at Kompasiana blog network said that the speech was normative and lacking in sincere problem solving plans.

This connotation seems to have combined with the widely held opinion on the RuNet that the funds for the Sochi games are being embezzled, and gave birth to the following parody one liners

So what we re seeing is a clash of values, a France imposing its normative understandings of equality and justice on individuals who see it nothing more than an unjust coercive act of the state.