No American leader has been more divisive than President Obama, who for the last eight years has made certain to drive a wedge between Americans along political, class, social and racial lines. The proof is made painfully and abundantly clear anytime a police officer is gunned down in cold blood or Black Lives Matter activists riot in the street with impunity. 

Still, despite setting race relations back decades, Obama is still tooting his own horn, and said that while the recent torture of a special needs teenager by four black thugs is "despicable," it is not in fact a sign of worsening race relations. 

Speaking to CBS 2 special contributor Jay Levine, Obama blamed racial tensions on social media. 

"In part because we see visuals of racial tensions, violence and so forth because of smart phones and the Internet," he said. 

"What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time ... Whether it’s tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook." 

No. The fact that the President of the United States routinely emboldens thugs, undermines law enforcement, and pits blacks and whites against one another apparently has nothing to do with it at all. 

"The good news is that the next generation that’s coming behind us … have smarter, better, more thoughtful attitudes about race," Obama said as if he is the one  responsible for that alleged positive trajectory (which, as we know, is not true). 

"I think the overall trajectory of race relations in this country is actually very positive. It doesn’t mean that all racial problems have gone away. It means that we have the capacity to get better."

Obama is not out of touch. He knows precisely the damage he has caused to the African American community and to race relations in this country. The current genocide taking place in Chicago -- Obama's hometown governed by his former Chief of Staff -- couldn't be more substantive proof.

It is a shame, because America's first black president truly could have had the capacity to heal the nation and do good for the black community. That's never been the Left's agenda though, has it?