Is Obama a Racist?

Can a man of black and white heritage be a racist? Especially the President of the United States?  What is a racist, anyway?

By one definition, a racist (a) assigns negative stereotypical behavior to (b) a particular group as a whole, then (c) acts as if the group always behaves that way. Examples:

“Scotsmen are cheap. Everybody knows that.”
“Jews are greedy. That is well known.”
“We’ll all agree that African Americans are lazy.”

On July 22nd Obama did that to doctors and police officers. Specifically, he said that a Cambridge police officer answering a break-in call “acted stupidly,” because “I think we know, separate and apart from this incident, is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. And that’s just a fact.”  This is racial profiling.  
 
Less well reported was Obama’s slander that pediatricians cheat the system by telling themselves “I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out” when not needed.
 
I just attended an outstanding seminar on Story Structure by Robert McKee. A key point was that True Character is revealed by one’s actions under pressure.  
 
Obama is certainly under pressure as his legislative agenda fails. This may be the character defining moment in Obama’s story. The irony is that both his comments were nonsense.
 
Racial profiling refers to police stopping citizens for no reason other than their apparent race. It did not apply to the Cambridge instance as the officer was responding to a 911 call.

Pediatricians, in the other example, do not perform tonsillectomies. They only refer the procedures to surgeons. Both of these examples are literally without sense; i.e., nonsense.
 
Someone who engages in nonsense is either ignorant or a fool. Since Obama was once a Harvard-educated law professor, one doubts he is ignorant.

So is Obama a racist?  No, he is just an inexperienced person who—under pressure—exposes his true nature as a foolish blamer. And who inexplicably happens to be the President.
 
Let us hope that in the future both voters and the candidates alike will heed The Master: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves,...” [Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii.]

Of course, as far as white cops and all pediatricians are concerned, Obama harbors racist-like prejudice.