I think you're grossly mis-characterizing what Obama said about affirmative action and who should benefit. I've posted below the question he was asked and his response, which is pretty good. Do you disagree with him, and in so doing, suggest that we should compete on the question of "who has been discriminated against the most?"

Farai Chideya: Let me throw a little curveball in there. We met when I was an undergrad at Harvard. You were the head of the Harvard Law Review. Now there's a big debate at Harvard over whether the children of immigrants — and you're one, and I'm one, for the purposes of these studies — should be considered the same as children of Jim Crow survivors, fthe great-grandchildren of people who survived slavery. What do you think about that and how that plays into affirmative action?

Obama: Oh, I think that's a divisive debate and a silly debate that we should not be getting into. Listen, your parents or grandparents, my parents or grandparents were either part of the black Diaspora. I mean, you know, black people didn't end up in the Caribbean by taking a yacht there. They came on slave ships. Back in Africa, my grandfather was a cook for the British army and suffered under the colonialism there. You know, the notion that we would try to parse and divide to see who among us has been most victimized, I think, is not an appropriate approach to take. And it weakens rather than strengthens the overall efforts to ensure racial equality and justice in this country.

See, we get soo misty-eyed when our politicians, because of their lack of analysis, avoid the tough questions, by saying the debate itself is meaningless.

I for one, think an answer to the question should acknowledge the problem first, which is that some Black Americans feel that slots meant to help them reverse the impacts of slavery are being allocated to educated Africans and other educated immigrants who benefit from these affirmative action programs, they say.

I'm not prepared to launch into whether these folks are right in their concern, but I do understand the logistics of the debate, and engaging it is hardly as easy as saying well, our oppressions are the same or that the debate is silly. Neither explain why lets say African students fair better academically than Black American students in the university.

Ultimately, what Obama was saying is that look, this 'aint an issue I care about. So Neeext!

Because of this, I'd encourage u to see political speech for what it is, and know that it is more ignorant in its strategy because of its lack of honesty.