As we’re all encouraged to wear face masks to protect ourselves and others from the spread of the novel coronavirus, some are using their face masks to make a statement. In the case of Michigan Republican state senator Dale Zorn, the statement he’d like to make is apparently a declaration of support for the Confederacy.\n
Zorn continued to shoot himself in the foot by adding that while his mask was most definitelythe Confederate flag, all students should be learning more about the Confederacy. “Even if it was a Confederate flag, you know, we should be talking about teaching our national history in schools and that’s part of our national history,” he told WLNS-TV,
adding that we should be teaching the history of the Confederacy to ensure that we don’t repeat the “atrocities that happened during that time,” though he, unfortunately,Zorn said. When he was asked by the WLNS-TV reporter what he believes the Confederate flag stands for, his answer was to the point: “The Confederacy.”a weak, “I’m sorry you were offended” apology that also seemed to belatedly acknowledge that it was, in fact, a Confederate flag draped on the lower half of his face. “I”m sorry for my choice of pattern on the face mask I wore yesterday on the Senate floor,” he wrote. “I did not intend to offend anyone; however, I realize that I did, and for that I am sorry.
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