From my perspective it appears that the country’s first black president refused to send aid to 4 white Americans who were under fire and eventually murdered, and then sent out his black UN AMbassador to lie to the American people about it. How’s that for racial optics?
Obama is not “black” or African-American. Like most Americans he is a mixture of ethnic blood. If Obama was smart he would emphasize his mixture and encourage all of us to see America as a melting pot where we mix our diversity into a cauldron that produces the strong metal of America, a metal that is stronger than all separated ethnic cultural allegiances, a metal that merges us into a united nation, a nation that is e plurabus unum, not a nation that is divided by so called race or ethnicity. I am NOT white or black or German or French - all the ancestry of my past is merged together in an America I want to celebrate with all who come from diverse backgrounds and ancestries but to do this we MUST STOP thinking of ourselves as being of a certain race or ethnic group.