Efforts toward Racial Unity

Part 1

By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.

Special to The Courier

Dr. Betty McDaniel, the vice chair of the Hagood Mill Foundation, is a miracle worker.

Racial tensions have heightened recently throughout America. The death of George Floyd after a police officer kneeled on his neck in Minneapolis spawned protests throughout the states.

Citizens of our county are looking for answers as to how we can build bridges and promote unity when there is so much racial strife.

McDaniel responded by saying, “We need to talk.”

In a family model, when there is strife, there must be communication. Marriages fail at alarming rates because of the lack of communication. So, how does this magical lady pull off such communication during a pandemic?

McDaniel, a grant writer extraordinaire, connected with the South Carolina Humanities, a state program

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