Name the other “Racist” President.
Seriously? Theodore Roosevelt? Woodrow Wilson? Andrew Jackson? Andrew Johnson? Thomas Jefferson? Abraham Lincoln? Richard Nixon? Harry Truman? Jimmy Carter? John Tyler? James K. Polk? Do we count Jefferson Davis?
I guess everybody is at least a little bit "racist" or at least ethnocentric. Everybody's made comments that somebody else might consider "racist." And people don't believe the same thing their whole lives long. Some outgrow their earlier views.
But really, we have had presidents who were a lot more into White supremacy than half-White Obama is into any sort of Black racism. I can't say for sure that all these guys were "racist" but you can find comments by them that people today would find objectionable, and some did clearly say that they believed their race was superior to another race.
Did you really think all of our presidents viewed Blacks or Indians or Asians or other minorities as equal to Northern European Whites? Wouldn't that have made Western expansion difficult and slavery impossible?
You don't have to believe that our presidents were horrible to recognize that they didn't see things as many people now do. You don't have to love Obama to recognize that he's not "our first racist president," and you don't have to hate America or think we're all racist to recognize that there was a lot of that stuff around in the past.