Last summer, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., drew attention to discontent with President Obama in the black community when she asked the audience at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) town hall in Detroit to “unleash” her and the CBC on Obama.

Waters was trying to appease “a very angry, primarily black audience,” CBC executive director Angela Rye explained during a CSPAN interview yesterday. “This was one of the scariest moments of my life,” Rye said in an interview indicating — though she downplayed the fact — the degree of frustration with President Obama felt by the black community at that time. “I was scared for the members,” she said, adding that she considered shutting down the meeting and calling “to have [the CBC members] escorted out by the police.”