POWERFUL image of .@HillaryClinton Hill at AME Church, Philly. Leading by example, many hands on h

[riversedge]

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Full speech at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107173831

Hattip to sheshe2 for speech. Thank you





ShirleyAnn Adams ?@ShirlsAdams 5h5 hours ago

🙇POWERFUL image of .@HillaryClinton Hill at AME Church, Philly. Leading by example, many hands on her, GodBless. 🙌











Joan Walsh Verified account ?@joanwalsh 22h22 hours ago

For those who worried Clinton would tack back to center on criminal justice/policing issues, this AME speech seems evidence she won't





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RickHendrix ?@DrRickHendrix 37m37 minutes ago

I love seeing the elders pray over @HillaryClinton - her faith is personal not political.... #ImWithHer


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Hillary Clinton Addresses Recent Shootings At African Methodist Episcopal Church Convention


http://www.npr.org/2016/07/09/485356103/hillary-clinton-addresses-recent-shootings-at-african-methodist-episcopal-church


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July 9, 20168:30 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday


The AME Church is holding its convention this week in Philadelphia. Members react to the deaths of five police officers, after a spate of police-related violence rocked Minneapolis and Baton Rouge.

LYNN NEARY, HOST:

Both of the presumptive nominees canceled campaign events yesterday because of the sniper attack on police in Dallas. But Hillary Clinton did keep one event on her schedule. She spoke to a gathering of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where NPR's Jeff Brady reports the audience was primed to hear a candidate talk about race in America.

JEFF BRADY, BYLINE: The AME church was founded by a former slave here in Philadelphia 200 years ago. It now has about two and a half million members around the world. The church holds its quadrennial convention during election years, and candidates - usually Democrats these days - come to make a speech. Before Clinton walked on stage, AME Senior Bishop John Bryant told the crowd he wants a presidential candidate who offers substance.

(SOUNDBITE OF CAMPAIGN EVENT)

JOHN BRYANT: We need more than encouraging words.

UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: Yeah.

(APPLAUSE)

BRYANT: We need to leave believing we have found the person that will fight for liberty and justice for all.

(APPLAUSE)

BRADY: The shootings this week in Baton Rouge, outside St. Paul, Minn., and in Dallas - they were on a lot of minds at this convention. When Clinton took the stage, she talked about each incident and mentioned the names of those killed. She told the crowd that after the 24-hour news cycle has moved on from this issue, she won't. Clinton talked about working for a better gun safety legislation and more training for police officers.

HILLARY CLINTON: And I'm going to keep talking about these issues with every audience. And if I'm elected, I'll start working on this on day one and keep at it every single day after that.

BRADY: Clinton also said white Americans need to do a better job of listening when black Americans talk about their experience of living in this country - a point that drew a round of applause at this convention. Outside the hall where Clinton spoke, you could hear people talking about the shootings this week.......................

[HassleCat]

1. The AME churches

I wonder how well the AME churches reflect the concerns of Black Lives Matter. There's a significant generation gap there.

[JI7]

10. dealing with racism is not generational

[HassleCat]

11. The specific approach to the problem might be.

[craigmatic]

15. Exactly it's the elders who support her and are willing to wait for justice but it's the young

who are fed up and ready to march, fight and die. This might look powerful but it's really an empty gesture.

[one_voice]

17. I'm sure many of the elders were around

and involved in the civil rights movement. They've been down this road before and know how important it is to keep the pressure on. I'd bet quite a few are on board with BLM.

[craigmatic]

19. BLM is a joke. Prayer meetings with Hillary are a joke. The only thing that will change things

short of a revolution is economic empowerment and political bribery like these other groups do. That's how the system works. We need to get our money up and pay off these politicians and control our media image to change things like the gays did. Marches and protests don't do shit. Prayer and hope isn't a real strategy.

[stevenleser]

35. Wait a second here. You are claiming the LGBT movement bribed politicians and media to give

them votes and coverage?

I need to see evidence of that. The suggestion itself is offensive.

[craigmatic]

44. See my posts below for gay groups funding candidates but I didn't say they paid media I said they

got in control of their image in the media which is why you saw a switch from having gays portrayed as weird outsiders to people who are victims of circumstance to be respected starting sometime in the late 90's.

[Warpy]

36. You got any proof of that?

I'd like to see it.

[okasha]

38. If you expect any credibility at all,

produce solid evidence of bribery and payoffs by LGBT's.

Put up or shut up.

[craigmatic]

43. When I say bribery what I mean is legal donations to a candidate. Links below

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/politics/lgbt-obama-donors/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/14/inside-obamas-lgbt-donor-machine-how-the-president-will-make-millions-from-gay-marriage-push/#480ac4b6b79d
http://www.politico.com/story/2011/05/gay-donors-fuel-obamas-2012-bid-054539?o=1

[okasha]

46. In other words, you weren't talking about bribery at all.

Of course LGBT 's donate to people who support us.

Why would anyone expect us not to?

[craigmatic]

48. I get that but in an ideal world you wouldn't have to. Back to my original point

I think that blacks should follow gays' example in this area.

[okasha]

50. I'm pretty sure blacks already donate

to candidates supportive of their issues, just as women, LGBT's, Hispanics, Native Americans, animal lovers, environmentalists, educators, auto workers and any other demographics do.

Now if you want to talk about publicly financed campaigns, I'm with you. But that's another issue.

[craigmatic]

52. We don't donate and expect anything in return and we don't hold their feet to the fire.We also don't

donate as a group.

[JRLeft]

40. I disagree with the gate part, but prayers don't do shit I wholeheartedly agree with it.

At the end of the day the only people who will help us is us.

[irisblue]

41. LGBT people paid off politicians? you got a source for that?

[craigmatic]

42. What I mean is that they linked up and donated to the right politicians as a group.

I believe they gave Obama $8million in 2012 in one of those private fundraising parties. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/politics/lgbt-obama-donors/

[justiceischeap]

45. As a "gay" I hate the phrase "the gays" we're not "the gays"

However, what the LGBTQ community did was create a lobbyist non-profit organization called The Human Rights Campaign and that group spent 25 years working on getting our community viewed in a more positive light and, like the NRA, gave rating to politicians who were LGTBQ friendly. We didn't "pay off" politicians--we threw our financial and verbal support behind politicians that supported us.

This is how we won some of our rights but don't believe we have won them all.

[craigmatic]

49. exactly and we had a 30 year head start on you and you achieved equality in 25 or so. I see

how effective you guys are all I'm saying is that black people should do the same shit.

[840high]

30. .+1

[brush]

51. Not a smart thing to say. Those elders are the fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts . . .

of the younger protesters.

Empty gesture? Hah.

Those photos just got Hillary more votes.

And I'm betting many of those "elders" were involved in protests themselves earlier in their lives and know the younger generation needs support from their families and friends.

You see, racial injustice has been going on for many generations here and even we elders understand the nature of long-term struggle.

[craigmatic]

53. No the pictures get her votes but I bet they didn't ask her for anything.

The problem is that the civil rights generation hasn't passed the baton and have stayed in power too long. They're too comfortable and democrats are too comfortable because they take us for granted. Look at the CBC they do little for the rest of us and are mainly there to have black faces in high places to pacify the rest of us.

[oasis]

2. Hillary will roll up her sleeves and get to work on this issue "on day one".

ImWithHer.

[Peacetrain]

3. It is hard to explain to someone who has never experienced it..

The laying on of hands.. the energy flowing from one person to another sending forth the best thoughts they can to the person at the center.. powerful moment..you do not have to be a Christian or a religious person of any sort to appreciate that energy..

[Lucinda]

6. +1

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. More tears

This is powerfully moving.

[riversedge]

9. I got a lump in my throat when I saw that pic. So meaningful.

[sheshe2]

5. Powerful indeed, emmotional

and so very moving. Thanks for posting, rivers.

[mcar]

7. Big kick!

[DesertRat]

8. k&r!

[LeftyMom]

12. If that was a bunch of sweaty white guys in bad suits laying hands on a Republican

everybody on DU would lose their shit.

Can we at least make some effort to be internally consistent?

[PragmaticLiberal]

13. "everybody on DU would lose their shit."

SOME people on DU would.

Personally, it wouldn't bother me a bit.


But people expressing their faith never has bothered me...

[Surya Gayatri]

25. Well said...

[uponit7771]

18. Context at least, I see nothing wrong with the pic and could care less where reThugs put...

... their hands

tia

[heaven05]

28. we're supposed

"to lose our shit" because a bunch of black guys are laying on hands to a Democratic Party nominee? I don't undderstand your response. The RW church has always prayed for their candidates in this country and since I've been here I've found no cases of which you speak.

Clarify please...

[stevenleser]

37. As someone already pointed out, context matters.

If it was a bunch of white, or black, or whatever group you can think of laying hands and praying about the classrooms full of elementary school kids killed in Newtown do you think most DUers would object and criticize? I don't think so. This is similar.

[riversedge]

14. These two photos side by side capture how I consistently see these two and who they are.

YUP>


Adam Parkhomenko ?@AdamParkhomenko 9h9 hours ago

These two photos side by side capture how I consistently see these two and who they are.

[oasis]

20. The post#14 photo below w/Trump is another reminder why Hillary must win.

[riversedge]

32. Hillary is steady but sure. I trust her.

[workinclasszero]

26. Democratic vs republican

I love the contrast, thanks riversedge!

[SummerSnow]

27. Hilary classy , Donald trashy.

[eastwestdem]

16. We need more leaders like Hillary. my

[Cha]

21. It is, Rivers.. thank you!

[Hekate]

22. KnRnBookmark. Thanks so much, Riversedge.

[jimw81]

23. that was a amazing speech

[Surya Gayatri]

24. Her faith is sincere and profound. Of course, like all of us,

she sometimes fails to live up to its ideals. But, she genuinely tries, so I believe.

[NBachers]

29. Moving and powerful- thank you. Thank you for posting this. Excellent Sunday inspiration.

[workinclasszero]

31. I love the laying on of hands in prayer

It is an excellent Sunday inspiration.

[LAS14]

33. Wow! This is a new Hillary!

Rhetorically speaking, anyway. Please do listen to the speech. Can anyone remember her sounding so inspiring? I sent it on to my Sanders friends under the heading, "If you're having trouble getting excited about Hillary."

Go, girl!!!!

[okasha]

39. I think this is the best speech she's ever given.

Moving, uplifting, powerful

[LAS14]

34. Was this covered in the MSM? I've been on vacation.

[riversedge]

47. saw one clip of her speaking at the church. media was on Dallas this weekend.