Flipping through Twitter this morning someone commented if everyone would paint the Confederate battle flag on mailboxes, Gospodin Trump and his henchmen would leave them alone. This brought back to mind one my favorite short stories of all time, The Appropriation Of Cultures by Percival Everett. I first heard it listening to a podcast of Selected Shorts.
The base premise of the story is a black professor buys a pickup with a Confederate flag on it from a redneck. For me it was one those stories that embeds itself strongly in whatever part of your brain or psyche that happens in. I am including a YouTube link to the short story parsed from an episode of Select Shorts. IMHO, it more than worth the 20 minutes of your time invested in it. Somehow it seems so perfect for right now.