Although it will be several months before “Scandal” fans get to see Joe Morton’s Papa Rowan Pope character deliver one of his characteristically smooth and caustic monologues, the Emmy Award winning actor reprised his role on Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.”

“I can only guess how Papa Pope would do this,” he said, before diving right into to a scathing condemnation of Southerners who will not give up their Confederate flags.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Morton, who was in full-on Rowan mode, addressed the holdouts of this civil war symbol while making use of the lyrics from the Gershwin classic “Summertime.”

“You are some funny, funny people. For you it’s always summertime and the living is easy," he said. “I am a black man. I have worked and scraped for every inch of dirt I walk on,” he went onto say in character. “You cried yourself to sleep because Lincoln hurt your feelings.”

The actor charged, “You think you love this country? What you love is that corruption of the red, white, and blue, you call valor. You are a bigot, and I am disappointed in the way you treat my country.”

Earlier in the show the panel was discussing why it was so hard to get people to let go of their Confederate flags. The panel offered up various theories about pride and fear of self-reflection being behind it all, and host Larry Wilmore marveled at how sales for the confederate flag have actually been soaring recently.

In the days following the Charleston church shooting, Wal-Mart, K Mart, eBay, Amazon and Etsy have stopped selling confederate flag-related items.

Business Insider reports that once major retailers pulled the flags from their shelves, people went into a frenzy trying to buy as many confederate flags as they could online.