WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama, in one of his final presidential addresses to a predominately black audience of Capitol Hill lawmakers and guests, made a plea to his Democratic base: African-Americans must vote en masse in November’s presidential contest to help his legacy or he will be personally insulted.

“There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters,” Obama told the crowd at the Phoenix Awards dinner, hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election,” the president said.

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