No list of the best Chappelle’s Show sketches would be complete without “Clayton Bigsby,” a satirical Frontline investigation about a blind white supremacist who doesn’t realize that he’s Black. He was a fictional character created and portrayed by Dave Chappelle, but on Thursday, a real-life Clayton went viral.
As a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans group, Daniel Sims, a Black man, is opposed to the removal of Confederate symbols from outside the Marshall County courthouse in Albertville, Alabama. “Regardless of how the next person feels, I’m not going to take my flag down. If I got anything to do with it, ain’t no monument going to come down,” he told WHNT. Sims said he was raised in a white household, like Bigsby, and he “grew up in an all-white neighborhood. My grandfather was white and he was the main one that fought in this war here and he’s taught me everything I know.”
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