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If the audience reaction at the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem Monday night is any thing to go by, Bill and Hillary Clinton have a long way to go before their once loyal black supporters love them again. One prominent member of the African- American community told us, “We all saw their tepid support for Barack Obama and we heard what they said during the primaries.” When Hillary was announced to the crowd – which included Jennifer Hol iday, Cecily Tyson, Andre Leon Talley and CBS’s Dr. Holly Philips – the recep tion was “courteous, but not nearly as exu berant as it used to be,” an attendee re ports. “Nothing compared to the applause she would have received a year ago. Peo ple are still salty.”