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I don't think Obama's race was irrelevant to the kind of person he was, but I think your point may be his race (ugh, I hate saying it like that) did not define him.
I have never heard of racism being derived from something positive like loyalty. If we followed this line of reasoning then anytime someone refers to someone as their "brother" out of a sense of loyalty would be racist?
I think you last point makes some good sense. It is a racist to think his race negatively affects his behavior. This is assuming though the only critique of Uncle Tom is racism, but betrayal exists beyond just racism.
So I think I am back to my original thought. I would not say that Obama is an Uncle Tom, but I think other people could say it without necessarily being racist. In this respect Uncle Tom isn't about applying a label of inferior or superior to a particular race, but about a story about betrayal and class struggle.
People who go around expecting Race Loyalty and hence believe in the idea of Race Treason are being Racist because they have expectations on people which are entirely based on their Race rather than their character as individuals, including that such people should treat others differently depending on their Race.
It's just that some people who think like that see such a posture as "positive" because it's not in favor of their own Race but a different one - treating people differently depending on their race to help other Races is the Liberal variant of Racism, whilst the Fascists want the race that benefits to be their own.
Most people who believe in the first form of discrimination don't see it as Racism, even though as with everything, if some are getting better treatment then others are getting comparatively less better treatment, which would be fine if people in need were getting better treatment and those not in need were not, but when the selection process is based on race rather than actual individual need then many who need don't get better treatment and many who don't need do get better treatment.
Notice how the whole Israel Genocide really brought to light how that "positive" racism wasn't at all positive: there was a lot of positive views and positive treatment for some people merely for being Jewish, quite independently of need or actually deserving it as individuals (which is what makes it Racism). Naturaly the Zionists and Israel weaponized all the positive predisposition towards that ethnic group by passing themselves as the representatives of that group, giving them the room to commit the most Racist Genocide of the XXI Century, comparable only in its cruelty to the actions of the NAZIs, which is still ongoing.
All that "positive" predisposition along ethnic lines towards anybody of a specific ethnicity turned out to have the extremely nasty effect of giving the most murderous assholes amongst that ethnicity the room to commit the most atrocious of acts, exactly because when people are judged by Race not by character, the assholes can hide behind the Race.