That is not true at all. Back in 2008 I was telling people to shut up about criticizing Hillary. I said we WANT Hillary to get the nomination, because if Obama gets it, the media will have orgasms promoting him. He will rouse every minority of voting age to go out to the polls and vote for him.
White Liberals will crawl over broken glass in an effort to vote for him.
I recognized Obama as the very real danger he turned out to be. As a matter of fact, I was pushing the idea of us (GOP) running a black man in 1996, because I knew he would win by a landslide. We could have taken advantage of that same media "Love Fest" and gotten conservative policy and conservative judiciary enacted with little additional effort. The country would be in a much better place financially, socially, and from a national security perspective.
The Black vote is generally 90-95% Democrat. You get any significant portion of that, and it's a done deal. The Democrats simply cannot win without a near unanimous support of the Black vote. A Black Republican running for President in 1996 would have done this.