Those same laws apply to creating a hostile work environment for whites. Yet if this had been a picture of a white president doing something demeaning, it would be cast as political satire, not racism. This is a blatant abuse of the intent of the laws to send a political message.
Goofy.
Reminding again that this is about the work environment in the office and not about President Obama, you must understand that there is generally no reason to take action to protect the entire class of white people, right? In general -- not always, but in general (and there have been court judgments otherwise that you will recall, I'm sure) -- minority groups and others who tend to be discriminated against at the hands of people belonging to more powerful groups are the ones who are in need of occasional special protection.
Organizations are sometimes particularly vigilant to make sure that they do not treat groups of people especially poorly. I think that's to be commended. You apparently do not. I guess I should conclude that you don't approve of trying to make sure people are treated fairly, especially when they are members of groups that tend NOT to be treated as equal partners in the community.
It's unfortunate, I agree, that we must take these kinds of steps. But you MUST know how poorly minorities are treated by lots of majority Americans. We're stuck with some clumsy solutions to that problem, I'm afraid.
The 'hate crime' business, for example, is particularly clumsy. But it's a remedy that is sometimes employed to punish people who really, really DO commit crimes against people solely due to their membership in particular groups of people. We are free to think whatever dumb thoughts we like, but we are prohibited in a special way from inflicting damage on people due to dumb thoughts we may have about entire groups of people.
It's racist morons who created this problem. And they keep it robust, too.
I, of course, don't expect that someone like yourself will be convinced. That's OK. It's always been like that. The rest of us are used to it.