Absoultely... it is driven by a racial component.
Give the opportunity, blacks will vote for blacks for any elected office and will hold black politicians to less accountability.
Dollar Bill Jefferson was overwhelmingly re-elected while facing federal charges. There’s a dependent (slave) class in line for handouts from ‘black leaders’ who drive their Rolls Royce by (like Al Sharpton) and throw a bit of the shakedown money out the window.
Obama is just another race hustling street-level operative who was articulate enough and light-skinned enough to con enough of the people some of the time.
Like most on the Left, many blacks judge a person by the color of their skin which is, by definition, "racist".