State rep calls Confederate flag removal ‘first step' (SC)
Michael Eads
8:26 PM, Sep 22, 2015
CLEMSON - State Rep. Jenny Horne told Clemson University students Tuesday about some of the wrangling that took place in the House chamber before the July 8 vote that removed the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds in Columbia.
Horne, a Republican lawyer from Summerville, .... appeared Tuesday at the Strom Thurmond Institute as part of the university’s Women’s Leadership and Race and the University speakers’ series ...
More sincere and open talk about race and diversity are needed across this state and many others, Horne asserted. One of the parts of society that needs it most might be law enforcement, she said. She thinks the spate of deaths of black men at the hands of police across the United States over the past year shows the need for more black officers and better screening of police applicants ...
Gun violence needs attention, too, Horne said ...
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