comedian Christopher Titus posted this on facebook today, thought it was pretty good:
THE AMERICAN SWASTIKA
To all of you who have been on the Pro-Confederate Flag thing, or think that it simply represents a time in history, or that the "Duke Boys weren't racist and that was one sweet Dodge Charger," William Tappan Thompson, the man that designed the flag said this:
"As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause... As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism. Another merit in the new flag is, that it bears no resemblance to the now infamous banner of the Yankee vandals."
Pretty cut and dried. So, to you people that hold it as a quaint symbol of long ago past, where White men sat on their porches with lemonade and listened to their slaves singing in the fields, I'm calling bullshit. This flag is the American Swastika-- it's embarrassing to us as a country. It should be in a museum-- an American museum of tolerance as a symbol to man's inhumanity to man. To fly it over a courthouse in this amazing country is a travesty, a stain on how great this country can be.
Today, my wife sat with a close friend of ours and was told the story of the first time our friend, who has spoken at the White House and has saved countless lives with her charity, was called a "nigger." She was nine. She. Was. Nine. The boy that said it was five. Five. No five-year-old riffs that. It is indoctrinated. My wife came home and cried about it. My wife and I will never know the bullshit that is racism in this country. As a matter of fact, if you are a racist in 2015, you aren't paying attention. Every black comic I used to tour with has a story about being bounced off the hood of a cop car. No white comics have this story. I'm tired of it all. It's not fixed, and it's not okay. So, peel off the Confederate flag stickers on the back windows of your pickups. Pull that Confederate flag off the porch, fold it up with that pillowcase with the eyeholes in it, and let's move forward. Whether you believe that it was designed as a racist symbol or not, and it was from the first stitch, that you now know it IS a racist symbol in our great country, should be enough for you to abandon it and join the winning team.
Christopher Titus
Yankee Vandal