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He's a sleazy sociopath with the gift of the gab who happens to be Afro-American.
The last part has nothing to do with the rest, both in a negative sense and a positive sense - sleazy sociopaths with the gift of the gab come in all sizes, shapes and colors.
In fact, it's actually a form of Prejudice to expect a black American President to be any better towards Afro-Americans than a non-black one: Racism but "positive", the kind that liberals tend to voice towards minorities whose votes they want to get.
Indeed the last part has got nothing to do with the first, nobody said it had.
It is however relevant since we're talking about Uncle Tom and race.
Another thing I never said, are you not reading my comments or are just misinterpreting things deliberately to find some non-existent racism?
The entire logic of using an "Uncle Tom" on Obama is that he is expected to treat black people better because of being himself black, but is not doing so, "hence" he is like Uncle Tom.
It's Racist to expect that as a black person he would treat black people better both because of the "he's black hence" part (i.e. expecting that what one does depends on skin color) and the expectation that people should help people of the same skin color (which when that skin color is "white" is literally a white supremacist dog-whistle).
In summary, the entire concept of Race Traitor - which for Afro-Americans is encapsulated in calling them an Uncle Tom - is Racist as fuck, which is probably why even the NAZIs would throw around accusations of people being Race Traitors when they were deemed Arians but did not support the NAZIs.
The non-Racist take is to expect that people in positions of power should help people in need, quite independently of the race of any of them. From that viewpoint, which has no "Race Traitor" concept, Obama by his own actions is just another sleazy sociopath.
Obama is literally defending Apartheid and sent 38 billion dollars to Israel which is why I called him Uncle Tom in the title. Fun fact Americans are not the only actual people in this world.
No he is not. You keep making up things.
And so double down while baselessly accusing others of racism, that is really despicable.
Sure mate, that's why he was called Uncle Tom which is a form of slander against Afro-Americans which accuses them of being a Race Traitor, which is literally the idea that one didn't do enough for one's race.