Following the killing of George Floyd, NASCAR and the United States Marines banned displays of Confederate flags, corporate America is going all in to eradicate racial bias from the workplace and “Gone With the Wind” is being repurposed to explain just how terrible slavery really was.
Yet congressional Republicans seem stuck in another era. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rejected demands to remove Confederate statues from the National Statuary Hall collection in the Capitol Building. He called it “nonsense that we need to airbrush the Capitol and scrub out everybody from years ago who had any connection to slavery.” McConnell suggested that the decision to remove the statues should be made by the states.
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