Black Lawmakers Grill Obama Aide Over Jobs: Maxine Waters, "Let me hear you say Black"
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Black lawmakers grill Obama aide on jobs
BY PETER WALLSTEN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1:40 AM
MIAMI — A top aide to President Obama got a public grilling Monday night from black lawmakers and civil rights leaders, who vented frustration at a jobs forum here that the administration was not doing more to directly help distressed black communities.
Tensions rose when Don Graves, executive director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, told a lively crowd of hundreds in a black church sanctuary that Obama was “focused on every community across the country.”
