Obama’s Racial Obsession

President Obama’s commencement address at Howard University on Saturday highlighted his legacy of racial division and double standards.

In a speech symbolic of the left’s toxic brand of identity politics — and his administration’s entire race ethos — Obama encouraged students of the historically black college to revel in racial pride, while simultaneously suggesting that anything the black community is not proud of is because of white people.

“Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness,” Obama told the class.

It’s nearly impossible to imagine a room full of white students receiving such a message about their background.

Indeed, white students are subjected to constant admonitions about their “privilege” and the numerous alleged sins their ancestors committed and for which they are apparently expected to atone.

The Obama administration’s sympathy to the divisive White-America-is-racist myth has been highly conspicuous. In a series of controversial incidents involving the killings of young African-Americans — Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray — the Obama administration openly and actively took the side of the “innocent” victims before the full facts were known, and it launched highly politicized Justice Department investigations into the events.

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“We can’t just lock up a low-level dealer without asking why this boy, barely out of childhood, felt he had no other options,” Obama said. “We have cousins and uncles and brothers and sisters who we remember were just as smart and just as talented as we were, but somehow got ground down by structures that are unfair and unjust.”

The message is clear: Black criminals aren’t criminals because they knowingly and willingly used their God-given free will to violate the law, but because of “unfair” structures constructed by white Americans.

The president also made reference to voter identification laws, repeating the typical liberal insinuations that existence thereof is some racist plot by whites to keep African-Americans and other minorities away from the polls.

“It is absolutely true that 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, there are still too many barriers in this country to vote,” the president claimed. “There are too many people trying to erect new barriers to voting. This is the only advanced democracy on Earth that goes out of its way to make it difficult for people to vote. And there’s a reason for that. There’s a legacy to that.”

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In the short term, the Obama administration’s tacit encouragement of the mindset that looks for white racism in every corner of American society and blames it for every single problem that befalls the black community resulted in riots, both in Ferguson and Baltimore.

In the longer term, the penchant by the administration and its defenders for race hustling has, in part, given rise to the supremacist “Black Lives Matter Movement” and a mephitic racial milieu on college campuses across the country. But Obama had nothing but praise for those poisonous propagandists who desire to fuel racial division further.

“I’m so proud of the new guard of black civil rights leaders,” he said. “It’s thanks in large part to the activism of young people like many of you, from Black Twitter to Black Lives Matter, that America’s eyes have been opened,” the president continued.

But the real reward reaped by Black Lives Matter and their ilk is the worst race relations in America in years. A recent Gallup survey found that over a third of Americans worry “a great deal” about race relations, the highest percentage in fifteen years — when the company first began asking the question. That translates to an increase of over 100 percent since 2014.

America’s eyes have indeed been opened — to the lasting and perhaps irreparable damage to American race relations that President Obama has wrought.