True, but fundamentally he’s being cheered on because he answers the deep seated fantasies of blacks finally being in a position of power to get ‘revenge’ on whitey.
It is counterproductive to lump all black people in such a vein or post material with which our enemies can cite "racism" on FR. Please refrain from such gross generalizations.
Obama posed as a centrist all through the campaign and the mediots did nothing to disabuse anyone of the natural conclusion. Hence, it was easy for people to vote such predispositions lacking evidence to the contrary. Best we make sure we have supplied that evidence before painting an entire demographic we need to help us win with a racist brush, what was until recently a growing black middle class.