‘TAKING THE BLACK VOTE FOR GRANTED’: BLACK REVEREND BLASTS OBAMA TO MEGYN KELLY

Following President Obama‘s decision to skip this year’s NAACP National Convention, Reverend William Owens, president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Thursday he was “confident” that the president is taking the black vote for granted this time around.

Kelly said while Obama cited “scheduling issues,“ political writers had pointed out that his political schedule was almost ”completely empty,” yet he still sent Vice President Joe Biden to fill in for him Thursday at the annual convention. Even GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered remarks before the NAACP, a largely Democratic audience, and was booed multiple times.

“Do you think the president is taking the black vote for granted?” Kelly asked.

“I think he is. I’m confident that he is taking the black vote for granted,” Owens replied.

Owens went on to say that blacks have been very “catering” towards Obama, therefore, the president assumes “just because we’re black, we are going to vote for him.”