USA TODAY -- Arkansas State Senator Stephanie Flowers refused to be silenced during a recent debate surrounding the state's proposed "stand your ground" bill. Sen. Flowers' outrage was sparked when one of her white counterparts requested to impose a ten-minute time limit on debating the bill's passage.
Sen. Flowers urged her fellow lawmakers to consider her perspective as the only person of color on the state Judiciary Committee -- and that of her black constituents -- in the decision to pass a bill that gives everyday citizens the license to kill.
The bill was struck down, and Sen. Flowers' response has since gone viral.
