Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.
"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
A Washington convention center with 3,000 blacks described as a darkened Washington convention center
That Mark Smith from the AP certainly has a way with words
Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight - Yahoo! News
"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
A Washington convention center with 3,000 blacks described as a darkened Washington convention center

That Mark Smith from the AP certainly has a way with words
Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight - Yahoo! News