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Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans when he’s doing so much
Flopping Aces ^ | 8 Jul 2014 | Vince

Posted on 07/08/2014 8:55:43 AM PDT by Cheerio

FULL TITLE - Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans when he’s doing so much damage to them?

According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, Barack Obama is rated as the worst president since WWII. That’s no surprise to anyone actually paying attention to the last five years of failure. What’s interesting however is how 40% of the American population can still approve of the way he’s doing his job. Demographics may play a part in that. Americans are no different than people everywhere else. When we don’t have a great deal of information about something or someone we grasp for those things that are familiar to us, that are like us. It’s like when you go to a party where you don’t know anyone. If you see someone you know, even if you don’t like them much you’re likely go over and talk to them, at least until you see someone you actually like or would rather talk to. That’s because at least you will have something to talk about rather than just standing around feeling awkward.

And in the United States there are a lot of voters who don’t have a great deal of information. Indeed, only 65% of native born Americans can get a pitiful 6 out of 10 answers right on the citizenship test – vs. 93% of immigrants preparing to take the test. And those are basic facts that everyone learned in school rather than positions on sometimes difficult issues.


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To: Cheerio

Tribalism


Tribalism (which is the best name to give to all the group manifestations of the anti-conceptual mentality) is a dominant element in Europe, as a reciprocally reinforcing cause and result of Europe’s long history of caste systems, of national and local (provincial) chauvinism, of rule by brute force and endless, bloody wars. As an example, observe the Balkan nations, which are perennially bent upon exterminating one another over minuscule differences of tradition or language. Tribalism had no place in the United States—until recent decades. It could not take root here, its imported seedlings were withering away and turning to slag in the melting pot whose fire was fed by two inexhaustible sources of energy: individual rights and objective law; these two were the only protection man needed.

Philosophy: Who Needs It

“The Missing Link,”
Philosophy: Who Needs It, 42


What are the nature and the causes of modern tribalism? Philosophically, tribalism is the product of irrationalism and collectivism. It is a logical consequence of modern philosophy. If men accept the notion that reason is not valid, what is to guide them and how are they to live?

Obviously, they will seek to join some group—any group—which claims the ability to lead them and to provide some sort of knowledge acquired by some sort of unspecified means. If men accept the notion that the individual is helpless, intellectually and morally, that he has no mind and no rights, that he is nothing, but the group is all, and his only moral significance lies in selfless service to the group—they will be pulled obediently to join a group. But which group? Well, if you believe that you have no mind and no moral value, you cannot have the confidence to make choices—so the only thing for you to do is to join an unchosen group, the group into which you were born, the group to which you were predestined to belong by the sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient power of your body chemistry.

This, of course, is racism. But if your group is small enough, it will not be called “racism”: it will be called “ethnicity.”

The Voice of Reason

“Global Balkanization,”
The Voice of Reason, 117


21 posted on 07/08/2014 9:03:16 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Cheerio

Because blood is thicker than water, no matter what the pollyannas try to tell you.


22 posted on 07/08/2014 9:03:59 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Cheerio

‘Cause he’s not from the ‘hood?


23 posted on 07/08/2014 9:04:08 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Cheerio
Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans?

Short answer = BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID!

They apparently don't even realize the guy in the HUT is neither African nor American. They vote for the color of skin rather than content of character.

24 posted on 07/08/2014 9:04:52 AM PDT by SMM48
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To: Cementjungle; Farmer Dean
If Obama would suddenly say that all blacks need to work for a living,his approval would go to 0%

To 17%.

25 posted on 07/08/2014 9:05:28 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Cheerio

Because an extremely large percent of the black populace is uneducated, ignorant and racist.
If you are white and vote for a white candidate because he is white, you are racist.
Ergo, if you are black and vote for a black candidate because he is black, you are racist.


26 posted on 07/08/2014 9:06:33 AM PDT by NY Cajun
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To: Cheerio
I don't know, maybe because he's ... BLACK. OTOH, at least 17% see through him. That's a start!
27 posted on 07/08/2014 9:06:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Blacks support Obama for the same reason they cheer when a 300 lb black woman assaults a 100 lb white woman, because they think Obama is screwing whitey and they HATE whitey.”

When I consider the damage Obama has done to this country, I always bear in mind the killings in Chicago, those much closer to home in Newark NJ, and am amazed how quietly American blacks are fading away.


28 posted on 07/08/2014 9:07:35 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cheerio
Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans when he’s doing so much damage to them?

Your premise, common enough, is that you can define what constitutes "damage" to blacks better than they can do themselves.

The parsimonious, and correct, answer is that blacks have added up the pluses and minuses and concluded (correctly, IMO) that "Obama" (or whatever his name really is) has given them more, much more, than he has cost them.

29 posted on 07/08/2014 9:10:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Farmer Dean
AS long as the money flows to them,they don’t give a damn.

That may be one of the issues but I feel the underlying cause is even more cancerous than that. As opposed to those of us here on FreeRepublic or even most average or above-average Americans, those in the black community are less involved with politics and local and world events.

With the majority of blacks located in population centers or some suburban areas, they tend to self-isolate from matters of overall society and focus more on black-centric issues. This creates a culture of ignorance of the majority of issues and sees the world through an exceptionally narrow lense. BHO represents the pinnacle of power and, in a sense, justifies their existance as a race. To them, he epitomizes the success or failure of black society and as such, must not be allowed to be seen as a failure, lest that indict their race.

30 posted on 07/08/2014 9:12:04 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Cheerio

Protective coloration, even though only one eighth of it is black.


31 posted on 07/08/2014 9:13:50 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: don-o
83%?? I thought it was in the upper 90’s.

It was. Now some of them have wised up.

32 posted on 07/08/2014 9:15:53 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Cheerio

Barack Obama - he gibs me dat Obama Check, he gibs me dat check, he gibs me dat free sh*t!


33 posted on 07/08/2014 9:16:27 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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To: JimRed
Now some of them have wised up.

This encourages me to continue to work on my transition from glass half empty to glass half full.

34 posted on 07/08/2014 9:19:20 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Shallow thinking.


35 posted on 07/08/2014 9:24:50 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Cheerio

Black Americans are like sheep being led to the slaughter. They are locked in a time warp, held in economic slavery and forever bondaged and chained by their very own....supposed leaders like Obama, the CBC and the NAACP!!! Nothing new,,,,Muslim Blacks like Obama, in Sub-Sahara Africa have been doing this for thousands of years. Ya think slavery is dead. Forget it!!! It is going on, unabated throughout the world, especially the Muslim world, with emphasis on Sub Sahara Africa!!!

Truth is, African-Americans are adrift-at-sea, both economically and politically,,,and they will be that way from many years to come. They are truly, the only American group of minorities that stays depressed and static as time marges on. Hispanics, Asians, Indians, etc have left them standing alone at an abandoned train station, cause by actions of their own hands!! Sad...but true. Many other American have been slaves of one kind or another throughout our great history...and have left it behind to live the American dream. Not so with African-Americans. Gotta take a good look in the mirror, folks!!! Obama is poison for ya all!!!


36 posted on 07/08/2014 9:25:51 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: brownsfan

Unfortunately,it’s ALL ABOUT RACISM!I feel for black-Americans.Obama could have been a Beacon of Light(instead of DARKNESS)!It must be VERY Disappointing to see The First Black POTUS so Unscrupulously use”The Race-Card”!!!!!!!!!


37 posted on 07/08/2014 9:28:10 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: don-o

I wonder how much of that 17% think he doesn’t give them enough free studf.


38 posted on 07/08/2014 9:30:06 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Cheerio

Skin color is everything. Content of character means nothing.


39 posted on 07/08/2014 9:30:13 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: Jim Noble

Exactly. Gibs, not jobs, are the priority.


40 posted on 07/08/2014 9:31:07 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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