In Charleston's wake, Clinton speaks forcefully on guns, race
By Dan Merica, CNN
Sat June 20, 2015
San Francisco (CNN)The United States' struggle with race is not over, Hillary Clinton said Saturday in an emotional speech that called for more candor on racial issues and stepped-up gun control laws in the wake of the deadly Charleston, South Carolina church shooting that left nine dead earlier this week.
Invoking leading civil rights figures and the Bible, Clinton told the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco that as "tempting" as it is to isolate the Charleston shooting as a random event, "America's long struggle with race is far from finished."
"I know this is a difficult topic to talk about," she said. "I know that so many of us hoped by electing our first black President we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. I know there are truths we don't like to say out loud in discussions with our children, but we have to. That is the only way we can possibly move forward together."
Pointing to a host of statistics -- from mortgage rates to the rate of asthma in black children -- Clinton argued that "race remains a deep fault line in America and millions of people of color still experience racism in their everyday lives."
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