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We know his next calling won’t be as a singer.

President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)

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Watch it and weep: @BarackObama sings Amazing Grace during his eulogy for #Charleston victim. http://bit.ly/1GPDY86 

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Barack Obama sings Amazing Grace during Clementa Pinckney eulogy

On this day Obama spoke directly to mourning African Americans, addressing them in the language and cadence of a preacher.
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And then, flanked by African American clergy, he led a rendition of Amazing Grace, the hymn written by a reformed English slaver that has become the emblematic African American spiritual symbol.

It was a powerful act of solidarity by a president who has been subject to years of coded racist barbs.

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WATCH: @BarackObama sings Amazing Grace in eulogy for slain #Charleston church members http://tdy.sg/1SRTCp1 

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