Watch this SC lawmaker passionately speak out against the Confederate flag

A South Carolina state representative gave an emotional plea to her fellow House members to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse grounds.

Rep. Jenny Horne (R) spoke at the end of a long day filled with debates over amendments to a Senate-passed bill to take the flag down, Fox Carolina reports. Horne was upset over the more than 60 amendments put on the bill as a way to either slow down or stop it from passing. "I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday," she said, her voice shaking. "And if any of you vote to amend you are ensuring that this flag will fly beyond Friday, and for the widow of Sen. [Clementa] Pinckney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury and I will not be a part of it."

Horne said that by amending the bill, "we are telling the people of Charleston we don't care about you. ... I'm sorry, I have heard enough about heritage. I have a heritage, I am a lifelong South Carolinian. I am a descendent of Jefferson Davis; that does not matter. It's not about Jenny Horne. It's about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off of the statehouse grounds." After her comments, the House defeated an amendment to fly a different flag in lieu of the battle flag. Watch Horne’s speech below. Catherine Garcia

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