It was just like the old days: As New York wrestles with a race-tinged tragedy, Al Sharpton sends a nastygram.

The one-time portly pastor, now whippet-thin but as full of it as ever, stepped into a borrowed pulpit at Harlem’s Mount Neboh Baptist Church on Friday — and promptly stirred the same old pot.

Sharpton had been invited to eulogize Jordan Neely, a severely troubled, often violent vagrant who died May 1 while restrained in a chokehold applied by fellow subway passenger Daniel Penny.

It was, as they say, a teachable moment.

[The entire episode is being framed so shamefully and narrative manipulated so shamelessly. I’m just ill. ~ Beege]