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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) did not bite her tongue when referencing the Tea Party at the “Kitchen Table Summit” held on Saturday in Inglewood, CA. California is plagued with a 12 percent unemployment rate which is the second highest in the nation lagging behind Nevada. Waters has openly expressed disdain regarding the plight of African-Americans, a group severely affected by the recession.

“I’m not afraid of anybody,” Waters told the crowd. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.”

Waters is irritated that President Obama bypassed the African-American community during his bus tour through the Midwest.

“We don’t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community,” she said at a jobs forum in Detroit. “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. “We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all, getting tired.”

Listen to the audio of Waters blasting the Tea Party below. Last week Rep. Allen West (R-FL) chastised the Democratic Party, especially Waters, for suppressing African-Americans. West’s comments were not well-received by Maxine Waters and likely contributed to her  sound off at the conference on Saturday.