He has thrown kerosene on the racial fire, and now pretends to be a fireman.
He must have seen some bad polling numbers.
People who are arsonists often try to become firemen.
When you boil Obama down to his core, at least professionally, he is a "community organizer." What does a community organizer do, work to lesson disagreements, foster communication? No. They work to cause disagreements, to pick sides and coerce others to give in to their group's demands, even if their demands are stupid, or his group is in the wrong. That's what he did in Chicago, that is what he is doing by proxy since he became president.
Great analogy.