South Carolina State Rep. Jenny Horne late Wednesday night delivered an impassioned plea begging her fellow House lawmakers to vote to take down the Confederate flag.
Much of America today is talking about the passionate speech State Rep. Jenny Horne delivered last night, begging and pleading and cajoling her colleagues to vote to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse.Â
Horne, a Republican who represents Charleston, the city where her fellow state lawmaker Clementa Pinckney and eight others were gunned down in a historically Black church by a white supremacist, made sure the vote would go her way.
“I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body,” Horne admonished, then shouted, “to do something meaningful, such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday.”
“And if any of you vote to amend, you are ensuring that this flag will fly beyond Friday. And for the widow of Sen. Pinckney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury, and I will not be a part of it.”
“I’m sorry, I have heard enough about heritage,” Horne continued, attacking those who falsely claim the flag represents “heritage, not hate.”
“I am a life-long South Carolinian. I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis,” she reminded them, as if she spoke for the former president of the confederacy. “But that does not matter,” she added. “It’s about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the statehouse grounds.”
“The world is watching this debate,” Horne reminded her colleagues.
Watch:
It worked:
Breaking: South Carolina House And Senate Vote To Remove Confederate Flag From Statehouse
Via Twitter, many, like U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, applauded Horne:
And others did too:
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