Watch: Confederate’s Descendant’s Scathing Address In S.C. Flag Debate

Watch: Confederate’s Descendant’s Scathing Address In S.C. Flag Debate

By Bill Chappell

Republican Rep. Jenny Horne lit up the House with a speech criticizing its slowness to take down the flag, saying, “I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis. OK? But that does not matter.”

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