Hillary Clinton kissed Al Sharpton’s ring in New York City on Thursday and she laid the rhetoric on thick.
Speaking in her signature flat, shouting tone, Clinton touched on everything from “police brutality” to the water “poisoning” in Flint, Michigan to “environmental justice.”
Upon the rousing conclusion, she told Sharpton, “Do not grow weary, do not grow weary,” on a hot mic.
“Reverend Hillary Clinton!” Sharpton shouted to the audience.
“We could have the alter call now,” she said off mic, cackling with delight at her witty response.
Clinton gave a similarly rousing performance at a February gospel awards show in Las Vegas.
“We all face troubles don’t we,” she told the audience. “And it’s easy to get discouraged. And then all of a sudden maybe you hear a song in church, you hear it on the radio, maybe a friend is singing it,” she said, before reciting a portion of “His Eye Is On The Sparrow.”
“I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free,” she said to shouts and cheers. “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he’s watching me.
“And all of a sudden those clouds lift and you know you can go on again. So I know this is not just about music. It truly is about the message. It’s about the Gospel and all that it means to so many of us.
“So I want to thank you. I wish all of you well — not just in these awards but in every day, in every way,” she said, channeling a song writer.
“And I am grateful that you are in our lives. A lot of people need to hear that message and you are helping to deliver it.”
It an interview after the event, Clinton said she is a “person of faith.”
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