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

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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.

[Ultima]

17% don’t approve but will still vote for him if he ran a third time.

[Tupelo]

The Brothas are all in for the Brotha?
Race trumps everything?
Orders from the Massa? Plantation mentality?

[Cementjungle]

17% don’t approve but will still vote for him if he ran a third time.

Guaranteed. The only reason there's any disapproval, is because some don't think he's done enough (as in enough free stuff).

[Nepeta]

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.

Prior to about 170 years ago, nearly ALL of the populations of Japan AND Russia were miserable dirt peasants at the very bottom of the pyramid, not much more than slaves.

If they want to, people can learn new habits of thought.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

170 years for Japanese and Russians could very mean 3,000 years for other groups. No, I’m not joking....

[caww]

...”The color of his skin, and FREE STUFF!!!!”....

In Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic they see themselves vastly different from one another though both nations have African History of migration........The Dominicans refused to identify with Africa and chose to identify with Spain...regardless of the degree of darkness in their skin t Haiti , on the other hand completely identified with Africa in all respects.

As a result these two nations continue to “segregate” their race and nations based on ‘Who” they 'identify' with....When you take a look at the Dominican culture and lifestyle over that of the Haitians you see that the Domincan nation has prospered far better as THEY took the initiative to move forward from their African Heritage. Haiti on the other hand continues to hold to African culture and religion and who they identify with.

I say this because no matter that Obama is milato...he “looks” dark skinned and therefore most in this nation ‘identify with him’ who are darker skinned then white Americans. So the vast numbers continue to support him even if they disagree with how he's running things. IMO.

[chuckee]

83% approve of him and 17% disapprove. Big difference in approval ratings and actual voting. The great majority of the 17% that disapprove of him would still vote for him because pigmentation trumps policy considerations among that particular constituency.

[itssme]

The blacks that I talk to are hungry for the truth...so I give them the FR URL and tell them to read the truth. When I reveal to them what is really happening in this country, they are surprised, and then they want to know more. The blacks that I talk to are employed. I spread the word, the truth of who obozo is where ever I can. Knowledge is a powerful thing.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thank you !

[AmericanVictory]

They don’t want to leave the liberal plantation and they love ol’ massa Barack. The good news is that the number of those intelligent enough to see through the half-white is steadily increasing.

[Kenny Bunk]

Black Americans have moved from Slavery, to Jim Crow, directly into the arms of the Democrat Party and the welfare state...

False. Blacks were largely Republicans until the 1930's. That's because Jim Crow Laws were Democrat Party measures designed to keep Blacks from full citizenship.It is one of the great ironies of American history that Blacks today are 95%+ Democrat voters, when for years it was the Democrats who kept segregation alive in the south, who repressed the Black vote, who insisted on a segregated military, and who systematically removed Blacks from public sector employment and elective office.

Today's timid Republican milquetoasts pussyfoot around the issue. But it was the Republican Party who led the fight to abolish slavery at a cost of 400,000 Union casualties. It was the Republican Party that gave Blacks citizenship and the the vote, allowing them to become elected officials at every level during Reconstruction.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The problem is African-Americans carry a forever chip on their shoulders, have their hands out for Obama freebies and cannot come to grips with reality!!! On the other hand, Hispanics, Orientals, Indians (India), most immgrants, etc., have have gone through similar brudens in America, have used their freedom to get educated, employed, own homes. own property, build companies, and became positive, contibuting citizens to their country.

Not so..with the majority of African-Americans, They would prefer to take handouts, rob & kill each other, “just go to Chicago at night and witness community organizer and America destroyer, Obama at work”, not get up before 12:00 PM every day!!! This from an America, where every American war in our history has had Black citizens fighting and dying for the USA, an America with the beloved African-American “Tuskegee Airmen”!!! And...on & on!!! No more!!! That has disappeared....freebies rule!!!

America’s African-Americans should hang their heads in shame for their support of Muslim, Barack Hussein Obama!!! Their quest in the wilderness continues unabated, caused only by themselves, in the majority of cases!!! Culture change, Positive attitudes, Good work ethic, Responsibility, Accountability has to rule the day...not Obama!!!

[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”!!!!!!!!!”

No sympathy here. Blacks, in general, are getting what they want. Their turn in charge. Some payback. Some rubbing whitey’s nose in it.

What Obama has taught me is to not trust black people. People I thought were fine, thinking individuals voted Obama because he looked like them.

If that’s racist, I’m a racist.

[ncpatriot]

They have a blind spot in this area, just as liberal Jews do.

[Nepeta]

The problem is African-Americans carry a forever chip on their shoulders,

I know.

It's analogous to the woman who got divorced 33 years ago, but as soon as you see her or meet her, the conversation inevitably goes back to the dreadfulness of her ex-husband, who has in fact been DEAD for 27 years. She won't shut up about her sufferings and she won't move on and she drags down any gathering she's invited to.

You want her to just SHUT UP and find something else to talk about--read a book, watch Downton Abbey, take up watercolors, but NO...

[PGR88]

You missed my point. Its not about party affiliation, its about the fact they have never experienced self-responsibility, so generally, as a group, they are credulous, and easily captured and controlled.

[EinNYC]

I remember discussing the candidate Obama with a couple of black colleagues at work. One was a legal immigrant from Trinidad and one was a legal immigrant from Nigeria. They were over the moon with the notion of a black candidate for President. I patiently laid out for them all the caveats about that candidate--Rev. Wright's hateful sermons, questionable relationships with known criminal elements such as Ayers, lack of participation in his Illinois senate position, lack of a believable birth certificate, etc. etc. NOTHING penetrated their skulls. Absolutely nothing. Confronted with facts, they continued to be mesmerized that a BLACK man could run for president. That's all they kept repeating. They were not receptive to a critical analysis of him, they were so in love with the whole concept of him.

Therefore, given that the overwhelming majority of black voters still think Obama is the cat's meow, I would have to conclude that (a) the majority of black voters are not critical thinkers, (b) they are themselves racists, voting for a candidate on the basis of his race vs. qualifications (not that McCain was very qualified) and (c) they are easily led by the prospect of free stuff, which is not really free---somebody's paying for it and very likely that somebody is all of us taxpayers.

[NorthMountain]

The question is not racist, but the answer is “racism”.

[Kenny Bunk]

.... never experienced self-responsibility, so generally, as a group, they are credulous, and easily captured and controlled

Many sociologists trace this back to the 30's when the government went into the welfare business in a very big way, and also started many "Make Work" programs that era's idea of "Shovel Ready." Oddly enough, it was at this time that Negroes started dropping their Republican affiliation ... just like everyone else during the Depression.

Whites tended to be funneled into those, while the Blacks continued on welfare. IOW, as a practical matter, they were bought. As more Negroes moved north, it didn't take the Democrats long to figure out how to keep them bought. To further this, they offered incentives to have children out of wedlock .... AFDC ...Aid for dependent children, which marginalized the fathers ... and on and on. Five generations later, the results are easy to see in the 'hood.

But now, that's neither here nor there. The government is undermining this class of people they created with open borders ... making them more dependent than ever. Not only do "Hispanics" far outnumber Blacks now,((2.5-1) but they have soaked up ALL of the lower-end employment in the country, as well documented by the very government that caused the screw-up in the first place.

"Credulous?" Maybe no more than all the white people like "Catholic Women" who voted for the Luo Lothario. "Politically Immature," might be a better way to put it.

not about party affiliation,
Sorry, I did focus on party affilition.

[PGR88]

Politically Immature is an excellent way of putting it.