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Hillary Calls Republicans Racist For Opposing Obama In Harlem Speech

Alex Pfeiffer White House Correspondent
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While giving a speech New York’s Harlem neighborhood Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said Republican opposition to an Obama Supreme Court nomination is “coded racial language.”

“The Republicans say they’ll reject anyone President Obama nominates no matter how qualified. Some are even saying he doesn’t have the right to nominate anyone, as if somehow he’s not the real president,” Clinton said.

She continued, “You know that’s in keeping what we heard all along, isn’t it? Many Republicans talk in coded racial language about takers and losers. They demonize President Obama and encourage the ugliest impulses of the paranoid fringe.”

“This kind of hatred and bigotry has no place in our politics or our country,” added Clinton.

Hillary gave her speech at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, whose director, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, is the great-grandson of the late Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. The building is located on Malcolm X Boulevard.

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