In a world of Scott Adams, be a Charles Schulz.
@marmel
I have to find sources for these, because usually when something is in this format, it's not true.
This one is mostly true. Schulz did stand up for Franklin and said those words, but it wasn't exactly in response to being told to eliminate Franklin, or explicitly to pander to segregationists, though certainly driven by racism and implicitly pandering to segregationists.
Here's a lengthy article with sources that discusses the history of this anecdote