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Uncle Tom means racist black man in favor of white people and the usage is correct.
Obama is a racist and mass murderer of brown and black people. And now he's doing PR for Apartheid.
That is a pretty brutal take.
Personally I just think he's an equal opportunity asshole and sociopath.
He does what's best for him and everybody else, white, black or any other race, are only important when he can use them to further his own interests, otherwise screw them.
So yeah, such a person, even being black himself, would not at all care for blacks (unless they're rich blacks or he can use them for votes), just like he doesn't care for anybody else beyond their utility to further his own personal upsides.
(Anybody expecting a top US politician to be different just because they're from a race other than white, a gender other than cis-male or a sexual orientation other than heterosexual is seriously deluded).
That also still fits the definition of Uncle Tom.
Obama participating in a racist system of oppression and Apartheid for his own gain instead of ideological convictions doesn't magically make it better. His actions matter way more than his motivation.
Incorrect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom