An Open Letter From President Conn to the Lee Community on Current Racial Tensions in Our Country
June 01, 2020
June 01, 2020
CLEVELAND, Tennessee, June 1 -- Lee University issued the following letter by President Charles Paul Conn:
Few things have shocked and sobered Americans like the video of George Floyd, dying on the pavement of a Minneapolis street, with a police officer's knee on his neck.
That tragedy came so soon after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in a quiet residential neighborhood in Georgia, and in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic in which black Americans have been twic . . .
Few things have shocked and sobered Americans like the video of George Floyd, dying on the pavement of a Minneapolis street, with a police officer's knee on his neck.
That tragedy came so soon after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in a quiet residential neighborhood in Georgia, and in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic in which black Americans have been twic . . .