Obama has shared exactly NONE of the “American black experience,” which is why he needs at all times to be calling attention to his suntan in order to distract the poor fools who voted for him. He is only half black, and that of unclear origin, and had a privileged white or foreign upbringing that has nothing in common with the “black experience.”
But he would never have won office if he had not had that extra dose melanin that kept him from being examined too closely because of the white guilt vote. Now that it is clear that that the country is falling apart on every level, it’s the thing he’s relying on to distract people and keep his devoted black base - who are disproportionately powerful in this country - fired up and distracted from the fact that they have never done worse in the last 40 years.
As someone who often works closely with black people, it says to me that they are so emotionally damaged - their entire culture is so distorted - that it’s all really hopeless. The people I know are intelligent, creative, accomplished - they seem to inhabit our world - but they are really living in bizzaro world.