Hillary Clinton in Florissant: Removing Confederate flag important, but not solution
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Speaking at Christ the King Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, Hillary Clinton welcomed the new push to abandon the Confederate flag but said it must be paired with renewed efforts to confront the deeper issues at the core of racial divisions, from policing to jobs to health care. That, she said, is the way to honor memories of the nine people killed last week at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.
The shooting was "an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God," Clinton said from the pulpit here, in a St. Louis suburb that neighbors Ferguson. "Let us be resolved to make sure they did not die in vain. Do not be overcome by evil but let evil be overcome by good."
"We have a moment of opportunity right now and shame on us if we don't seize it," she later added.
Clinton said she appreciates the calls from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and other politicians to stop flying the Confederate flag on the grounds of the state capitol. "It shouldn't fly there," she said. "It shouldn't fly anywhere."
Clinton has talked through her thoughts on race with a range of people, including two top campaign staffers: senior policy adviser Maya Harris and Marlon Marshall, director of state campaigns and political engagement. Harris is a civil rights lawyer who has written about engaging women of color in the political process. Marshall grew up in Richmond Heights, a suburb about 15 miles south of Ferguson, and attended Michael Brown’s funeral on behalf of the White House, where he was deputy director of public engagement until late last year. He joined Clinton in Florissant on Tuesday.
read: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-23/hillary-clinton-says-confederate-flag-debate-is-just-the-beginning
— On the heels of delivering an impassioned speech on race relations last weekend, Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the shooting of nine people at a church in Charleston as "an act of racist terrorism," and called for the removal of the Confederate flag from public spaces nationwide.
“Those nine righteous men and women who invited a stranger into their midst to study the Bible with them, someone who did not look like them, someone who they had never seen before, their example and their memory show us the way,” she told the audience of about 250 attendees. “Let us be resolved to make sure they did not die in vain -- not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good.”
Clinton emphasized inclusiveness throughout her speech Tuesday and in comments she made during a community panel that followed her prepared remarks. At one point, Clinton told the audience that she "didn’t have any black friends, neighbors or classmates until I went to college...I'm so bless to have had so many since." She said that nonetheless, she jumped at the opportunity to see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak when she was a student.
"Whether you live in Ferguson or West Baltimore, in coal country or Indian country, you should have the same chance as any American anywhere to get ahead and stay ahead," Clinton said.
read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/23/hillary-clinton-takes-her-message-of-racial-reconciliation-to-missouri/
watch: http://fox2now.com/2015/06/23/clinton-removing-the-confederate-flag-is-important-but-not-the-solution/
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All our Democratic candidates got it right on the Charleston shootings - Republicans failed outright
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026887587
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