General lee flag ..... Gone !!!!

[Zemo]

I dig the Confederate flag on the General Lee...that's an iconic car...without it, like Jim said...it's just an old boring orange car.

If I had tons of cash to burn, I'd but that Dodge Charger with the flag...not without it.

OK, so the Confederacy had slaves...well...the Union took the land from Native-Americans.

So both sides are not that innocent.

So should be ban the American flag as well?

That's what I thought...

Yep, It's now a politically correct gone wild world. Sucks imo.

[ODBJBG]

Sounds like a marketing ploy to me. Good way to move a bunch of General Lee merch that isn't selling otherwise. "Best get that car now paw, they done removed the flag from duh rest of em', yeee-haw, I'm a rebel!"

Seriously, WB put out a Dukes of Hazard movie a few years ago where they had the main characters go in black face while riding around with the confederate flag on the roof of the car. This isn't about political correctness. Anyone who thinks so is truly being bamboozled.

I love the General Lee, it's an awesome ride as part of a awesomely cool TV show that's been off the air for decades. Who cares? If they were CGIing it to cover it up in the old show or something, then I'd be upset. This is a total non-issue. It probably has reached the point where Dukes merch ain't selling like it used to and it's now more trouble than it's worth. They've made this crap for 30 years, don't worry there will always be a supply of orange cars with Confederate flags on it.

You can't rewrite history, but that doesn't mean you should continue on making the same mistakes just because it's "tradition".

[Hector]

I dig the Confederate flag on the General Lee...that's an iconic car...without it, like Jim said...it's just an old boring orange car.

If I had tons of cash to burn, I'd but that Dodge Charger with the flag...not without it.

OK, so the Confederacy had slaves...well...the Union took the land from Native-Americans.

So both sides are not that innocent.

So should be ban the American flag as well?

That's what I thought...

[Bronxboykev]

When you are younger it is amazing what simple things could grow into. I was going to say young and Ignorant but I think a better word is young and Innocent of mind.
I was a teen and all it was was a cool car with a cool logo. Then all of a sudden one day it was everything bad that was associated with the Confederacy.
I grew up with a friend whos name was S.... S..... all thruought High School backin the 70's she would do the Double S's all over her school books... Who knew it it looked cool enough... Go 1 step further she was of Polish Decent... Completly innocent, I cant think of what might have happened to her today had that happened, Suspension, Expulsion,Ridicule....

Whats that song from Peter Pan... I won't grow up

[Earth 2 Chris]

My sister and brother-in-law once ran a truck club called the Confederate Cruisers. They did a lot of community projects and helped out during emergencies like snow storms, floods etc. They could never get the town behind them for a big town-wide car show. I always thought their name held them back.

It seems odd that WB would have problems with the flag on the General now. But then they re-recorded all of Mammy Two-Shoes dialog in the old Tom and Jerry cartoons in the last decade or so, too...

Chris

[Mikey]

That's actually kinda funny - especially because he had a slavic accent

[palitoy]

Same thing happened to me, I walked into an Antique store and there was a weird, handwritten note on the door. I managed to read "This is our country" before i walked in. The man was sitting in a rocking chair, had a thick slavic accent and was pretty hammered. He went on about "certain people need to go". It was a "Kids in the Hall" sketch come to life, I could not leave that place fast enough. I looked like Buddy Bradley at that point in my life, so I'm not sure where the "hey another racist!" vibe came from.

[Mikey]

Agreed but when those groups decide to tie themselves to the symbol, it becomes something of a messy situation and very real.

A few years ago a friend of mine went to Florida and bought a Confederate Flag at a flea market. The vendor whispered to him "I've got Klan flags in my car" which made him wonder if he needed a makeover.

That's weird and reminds me of something...

Like 10-ish years ago I went into this old junk collectible store.

It looked like the general store from Little House

The guy had mostly junk -- best thing was a Campus Queen lunchbox

Anyway, when I was checking something out --- think I bought some Marx Presidents ... the old guy says "you want to look at some Klan stuff ?"

I was like ....... uhhh, ok ---- just to see what he had.

He pulled out some pinbacks of KKK and nazi logos... also some ww2 nazi medals

I was like nahhhh.

It made me wonder why he would ask me that .... I didn't exact look like a skinhead ...... If anything I looked more like Brian Blessed as Volton

edited to add ... this place was in New Jersey

[palitoy]

There's more to the Confederate Flag than slavery and KKK. It depends on who you ask as to what it represents.

Agreed but when those groups decide to tie themselves to the symbol, it becomes something of a messy situation and very real.

A few years ago a friend of mine went to Florida and bought a Confederate Flag at a flea market. The vendor whispered to him "I've got Klan flags in my car" which made him wonder if he needed a makeover.

[Mikey]

I remember back in the day I had a summer job working at the local US Armory (In New Jersey)

We all loved Skynyrd so we all had "rebel flags"

One of my buds dared me to run it up the Armory flag pole

Of course I did (being a dumb kid)

One of the sergeants ran over and said --- take that thing down now, you want them to shoot you ? !!!!! LOL


Good times

[ScottA]

I have no problem flying the Confederate Flag at home or on statre buildings, especially here in the South. I do have a problem when someone or some group tells me I need to remove it because it hurts their feelings.

[Mikey]

There's more to the Confederate Flag than slavery and KKK. It depends on who you ask as to what it represents.

To be honest, to me it represents Southern Rock

Whenever I see it I think of Lynyrd Skynyd

[jimsmegos]

There's more to the Confederate Flag than slavery and KKK. It depends on who you ask as to what it represents.

Yep. To give in to only one view leads to continuing the spread of ignorance.

[ScottA]

There's more to the Confederate Flag than slavery and KKK. It depends on who you ask as to what it represents.

[Mikey]

I'm just wondering why the wait. They could have done this at any point in time.

Well, within the last few years there was talk - and actions of getting the Confederate Flag off state flags .... so i'm guessing this is just trickle down from that.