In the same speech to the Democratic National Convention in which Hillary Clinton warned “[Trump] wants to divide us — from the rest of the world, and from each other,” the former secretary of state admitted the nation is already fractured after eight years under President Obama’s stewardship.

“We have to heal the divides in our country,” Clinton said.

In no small part the divisive, politically self-serving rhetoric on race from President Obama and Clinton has contributed to the abysmal state of race relations.

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But just a few dozen words later (34 to be exact), Clinton had already swung back to the same sort of race-baiting rhetoric that has fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, divided America along racial fault lines, and encouraged the vilification of police.

“Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of young black and Latino men and women who face the effects of systemic racism,” Clinton said, “and are made to feel like their lives are disposable.”

The blanket assertion that white Americans at large, and more specifically those in the police force, are racist has become a potent tool of national Democratic leaders to generate outrage in the black community — they hope leading to big turnout in the November elections.

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Clinton was correct when she said there are divides in this country.

In no small part the divisive, politically self-serving rhetoric on race from President Obama and Clinton has contributed to the abysmal state of race relations — at its lowest point in decades.

A July 17 NBC/The Wall Street Journal poll found a whopping 74 percent of Americans feel the state of race relations is bad.

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“Race relations are the lowest point in the history of our poll, in more than 25 years,” said NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd. “The previous low was in October of ’95 … back then, 61 percent said race relations were bad, while 34 percent thought race relations were good.”

October 1995 was the same month O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges. Americans negatively view the state of race relations by a 13 percent larger margin, than amidst that pivotal national event.