Michigan senator apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask

[Demovictory9]

Michigan senator apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask
Dale Zorn initially defended his actions, saying it was part of ‘our history’, but eventually apologized after widespread outrage

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/michigan-senator-mask-confederate-flag


A Republican politician in Michigan has apologized after wearing a face mask that appeared to depict the Confederate flag, an image offensive to many Americans as a symbol of racism and slavery.

Michigan state Senator Dale Zorn wore the mask during a Senate vote at the Michigan state capitol in Lansing on Friday. He initially defended his actions, saying his wife had made the mask and that it depicted the flag of Tennessee or Kentucky.

“I told my wife it probably will raise some eyebrows, but it was not a Confederate flag,” Zorn told Lansing TV station WLNS on Friday.

He went on to add: “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 and it’s something we can’t just throw away because it is part of our history.”

When Zorn was asked what the meaning of the Confederate flag is, he replied “the Confederacy”.

Link to tweet

[Faux pas]

1. They LOVE

rubbing their assholedness in our faces.

[kairos12]

2. The Iron Brigade

The most vaunted unit in the history of the Union forces was the Iron Brigade. They came from several states including Michigan. They stood up at Gettysburg and helped turned the tide the first day. The traitor soldiers known as the Confederacy knew they were in trouble when they saw union soldiers wearing their fabled black hats. The fact this idiot wore that traitorous flag is beyond a disgrace and he should be run out of Michigan.

I'm not even from Michigan, just outraged for them.

Rant complete.

[dem4decades]

5. I feel the same way about Susan Collins and the 20th Maine.

They fought so valiantly only to have her shit on the Union so many years later.

[kairos12]

9. Agreed. Joshua Chamberlain would be dismayed, but undaunted.

[Siwsan]

3. Shame on him. What's wrong with a mask representing the Michigan flag

Much more appropriate.

[Demovictory9]

6. that doesnt provide the dog whistle racism he wanted to promote

[luvallpeeps]

4. Well up his ass. n/t

[lpbk2713]

8. Like someone in Boston wearing a Yankees ball cap.

Big dumbass.

[Grins]

10. Edit: "REPUBLICAN Michigan Senator apologizes..."

Much better. Far more accurate.

[Demovictory9]

11. Edit: "REPUBLICAN Michigan Senator apologizes..." because he got CAUGHT

not because he's really sorry

[LiberalFighter]

12. I depicted the flag of Tennessee or Kentucky????

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He doesn't know which? So he doesn't know why his wife depicting a flag from one of them?

And then he doesn't want anyone to get a closer look at it. The Kentucky flag does not look like it. And the Tennessee flag does not have the bar or cross as shown above.

It should be considered a disgrace that he would wear it in Michigan. It should disqualify him from serving in elected office.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Also, Kentucky state motto on the flag: United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Robert E. Lee's favorite battle flag rivals the Nazi swastika in being the icon of the promotion of division.


Kentucky's flag:

[struggle4progress]

19. Careful there! It sounds like you've never even heard of Our Great State of Kentuckiortennessee

[LiberalFighter]

22. Is that why Kentucky and Tennessee are parallel to each other?

[BComplex]

13. Definitely a symbol of racism and slavery, but also a willingness to DIVIDE these United States

The confederate flag is the most despicable thing imaginable.

[Chainfire]

14. It is better for them to wear their symbols

so that we can see who they really are.

My paternal ancestors were Confederates, and I won't honor the symbols of the Confederacy.

[UpInArms]

15. The color of the confederate flag is white

A flag with a white color, often used as a symbol of surrender.

[struggle4progress]

17. "I shall never forget Michigan's support of the heroic Confederate cause!"

[Cha]

18. Racist Lying Asshole

[Aristus]

20. You're from Michigan, you fucknozzle!

It's not your history, but even if it was, DON'T DISPLAY THE FUCKING CONFEDERATE FLAG!

[Goodheart]

21. Surprise, surprise, a dishonest racist.

A lot of Confederate traitors killed a lot of young men from Michigan, you fucking asshole.

[GulfCoast66]

23. My family is Southern since the 1660s.

And these midwesterners who have totally shit on the sacrifice of their ancestors leaves me stuck between depressed and furious.

My wife’s family homesteaded Indiana in the early 1800s and we have a photo on our wall of her direct ancestor who was wounded at Shiloh and during the Atlanta Campaign along with his obit when he died in the early 1900s calling him a hero of the civil war.

I have the same from my family, but would never celebrate it. It sure they were brave and believed in the cause they fought. But it was the shittiest of causes.

The farm boys from the Midwest saved the nation, eliminated slavery and died wholesale doing so. But killed more than they died! No southern soldiers wanted to face the boys from Wisconsin, Michigan or Iowa. They fought like Wolverines.