Haley described the Rev. Al Sharpton protesting outside the governor’s office over the Confederate flag. She said she later told him, “If you would have come inside and held out your hand, I would’ve hugged you.”
Haley compared the scenes in Ferguson and Baltimore with the way the Charleston community came together following the shooting at a historically African American church that killed nine people, including a state senator. “We didn’t have riots, we had vigils,” she said. “We didn’t have violence, we had hugs.”
Listening and hugging is how Haley suggested divided communities can heal. She also offered this as a lesson to Republican leaders, whom she said must tone down their language about minorities.
“The problem for our party is that our approach often appears cold and unwelcoming to minorities,” Haley said. “That’s shameful and it has to change.”
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