[glennaro]

This incident fits so well with the infirmative-action, socialist president’s Chicago thug-style political strategy as it divides Americans (although in this instance incorrectly as “Black-White” rather than as “Black-Hispanic”), it allows him to rile up the racist criminal elements of his base, and it provides a forum for him to promote his fractional (and fictional) “blackness”.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, and b) it is "community organizing" on a national scale, and finally c) it does not let a good tragedy go to waste (i.e. it can be harnessed for political reasons).

What we are watching is PURE Saul Alinksy, right before our eyes.