It is shameless but I think it also shows how ignorant and poorly educated he is.
Obama isn’t a knowledgeable, or a thinking man, and he isn’t much interested in anything outside of his own life.
He didn’t grow up in the continental United States. He was raised abroad in his formative years by anti-American parents. He has no connection to the common man.
He associated to perpetually p!ssed off marxist professors in college and distanced himself from white peers so he could claim to be “down with the struggle” (a struggle he didn’t personally experience).
His Selma remark was a “me too” moment.