Washington - 'Obama's Big Black Bus Not Going to Black Community'

Washington - A prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus ripped President Obama’s bus tour for ignoring suffering African-American communities as it rolls through pastoral—and mostly white—heartland towns.

“We don’t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community. We don’t know that,” fumed Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) Tuesday evening at a jobs forum in Detroit, which is suffering a 12.5 percent unemployment rate, double Iowa’s 6 percent.

“We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is,” she continued.