“Real courage takes place when it’s hard to do something. [Charleston leaders] Dot Scott and the Rev. Joseph Darby are true heroes in our community. There are no awards for them. We won’t see them in Congress next year. I’m sure they’ll still be here among us, telling us things we need to know even when it makes us uncomfortable. Let’s listen to them in the future.”
— Sharon Fratepietro of Charleston in a letter to The Post and Courier on how Scott and Darby’s longtime calls for removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse ground shows real leadership, as opposed to some who did so when it was “politically safe to do so.” Full letter.
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