You may or may not have heard that a Confederate flag the size of a semi-truck was unfurled at the intersection of I-75 and I-4 by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans the same day that Barack Obama officially clinched the Democratic Party nomination. While they claim it was coincidental as they had been planning to hoist it that day, the 200th birthday of Confederacy president Jefferson Davis, for some time now, the symbolic double-duty that the flag performed that day is remarkably offensive.
But rather than go into a litany of how the South still is a different country from the rest of the United States in many ways, and that there may or may not be legitimate concerns of their heritage being suppressed by the implicit connection so many see between the Confederate flag and slavery, we simply offer up Stephen Colbert’s skewing of the incident.
Colbert and his crew of writers are nothing short of satirical geniuses when they hit mark like they do here.
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