Hillary Clinton has to earn the African American vote, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday.
"And I think she knows it," he said on MSNBC's "MTP Daily" hours after
meeting with Bernie Sanders for coffee and tea at a Harlem restaurant.
Sharpton, who has not endorsed either candidate in the Democratic primary, said that he would need to hear specifics from both candidates, particularly as the contest shifts to South Carolina.
"You can’t go to South Carolina and not deal with the Walter Scott case, not deal with gun control and the ramifications of the Charleston Nine," he said, referring to the case of the North Charleston man who was shot and killed by a police officer and the victims of the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church last June.
He said that Sanders also discussed the role of race in income inequality and the wage gap.
"So what we want is specifics, not just catchphrases, not just some kind of soundbite, we want specifics just like you do in other areas," he told Chuck Todd. "You must earn our vote,