I'm sure everyone here remembers this, Obama 2009
trying to do his best to bring American's together in understanding and common purpose. The opposite of trump's appeals to racism.
They saw Obama as just another black man supposed to be subjugated to white privilege, control. Never gave President Obama one inch of cooperation, on any issue.
Obama invites race row policeman for a beer in the White House
Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
Obama revealed he made the five-minute phone call to Sergeant James Crowley shortly after police unions demanded an apology from the president for saying the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts "acted stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates on charges of disorderly conduct after the officer responded to a report of a suspected burglary.
The president said he should have chosen his words more carefully but stopped short of an apology. "Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped to contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make it clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave the impression I was maligning the Cambridge police department and Sergeant Crowley and I could have calibrated those words differently," he said.
Seeking to lighten the situation further, he said at the daily White House briefing that he had invited both Crowley and Gates for "a beer here in the White House".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/24/obama-race-row-beer