“If you take the race-hustlers and race-baiters and the race-pimps out of the equation, race wouldn’t be much of an issue. Because people would learn to relate to each other as human beings instead of different skin colors.”
Obama set race relations back 50 years.
At minimum, Obama has made race relations more volatile.
When he got his hands on the wheel of state and started turning it in a new direction "to fundamentally change this country", he tried to explain the poor performance of everything he did by trying to convince us that this was the "new normal".
He did the same thing with race. It started with the Cambridge police acting "stupidly" against a black guy, to the Ferguson riots, to embracing BLM, and on and on and on.
All of this racial tension is the new normal he'd say.
Personally, I think people just got tired of his bad-tasting "new normal" medicine and figured we could do better.
Obama's two terms opened the door for a guy with a brighter outlook for America. Enter Donald Trump and MAGA.