Morning Quote

Confederate Flag, since removed at Montgomery Memorial.

From a Washington Post column about alleged racist statements by President Trump. The paper sent eleven GOP Senators facing re-election challenges questions about recent Trump actions. Though it wasn't in the questions, some responded about Trump's condemnation of NASCAR for banning confederate flags at its tracks, and false allegations that the only black NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, was responsible for the "hoax" noose incident. Most of the eleven did not respond:

They think their silence protects them. But it does something else: It turns them into the handmaidens of white supremacy.

ADDENDUM: From CNN:

The senior GOP US senator from Mississippi (Not one of those sent questions by The  Post) said Monday that the decision by his state to change its "divisive" flag with the Confederate emblem was long overdue, while praising the decision by NASCAR to ban the battle flag of the Southern secessionists at its events as "absolutely the right thing to do."

"It's a symbol that more and more represents a day in the past that we don't want to celebrate," Sen. Roger Wicker said of the Confederate battle flag. He added that NASCAR's move to ban the flags at its events helped push the state to remove the Confederate battle cross from its flag, which stood for more than a century.