{"id":10146,"date":"2011-09-26T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:19:41","slug":"pres-obama-tells-black-caucus-stop-complaining-and-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10146","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Tells Black Caucus &#8216;Stop Complaining&#8217; And Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> told the Black Caucus and their guests on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and &#8220;put on your marching shoes&#8221; to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>And though he didn&#8217;t say it directly, he sought their support for a second term, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from Black leaders that he&#8217;s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans &#8212; and not doing enough to fight Black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to you,&#8221;<strong> Pres. Obama<\/strong> told an audience of some 3,000 in a Washington convention center.<\/p>\n<p>But he said Blacks need to have faith in the future &#8212; and understand that the fight won&#8217;t be won if they don&#8217;t rally to his side. &#8220;I need your help,&#8221; <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The president will need Black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he&#8217;s to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday&#8217;s speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama told the Black Caucus and their guests on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and &#8220;put on your marching shoes&#8221; to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. And though he didn&#8217;t say it directly, he sought their support for a second term, too. Pres. Obama&#8217;s speech to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}