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I saw the preview for this recently and was surprised to see that they kept the General Lee in it's original form. That is - they're not PC: there's a Confederate flag on the roof of the car.
Now, I've grown up in the South and I personally do not equate racism with the Johnny Reb flag. I've always looked upon it as a sign of southern pride - not for starting the freakin Civil War - but for being part of a sub-culture that's recognized all over the world. A sub-culture that prides itself on its cooking, its weather, its beautiful countryside (no pun intended), and its hospitality.
And for anyone that's gonna raise the premise of the Klan, or of Poll Taxes, or of Segregation and how it's all manifested in piece of cloth: jam it.
I grew up in a South that didn't equate blacks below whites. I grew up with one of the first bra-burning feminists in the late 60s/early 70s, so I can confidently say that while I might not exhibit some of the more liberal traits here, I have been educated in them enough to know that they're not all they're cracked up to be - but I digress.
It's a shame that people would look upon a segment of American history and react like it was plutonium; like it or not, that Rebel Flag IS a part of history and burning all of them isn't going to erase a....well, a really fucked up segment of our history. It was a nasty period, but we moved out of it....moved on. Gazing upon a relic from that era doesn't mean that we're racist - it just means that we admire history....good or bad, we admire it.
Consider this if you're still steamed about my opinion: many people say that burning the American flag is symbolic - that's it's just a piece of cloth. Think of the Confederate Flag like that and it won't hurt you. Not one-little-bit.
[/amateur historian]
Let us not forget the past unless you're gunning to repeat it.
And here's hoping that I don't get a ton of nasty comments for expressing an opinion....
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Mad Mikey said:
Well Nate - yours is ONE opinion. And you're one of those nimrods that will burn every history b
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Nate Calloway said:
Mikey:
My family is from the South, Alabama and Louisiana and I am proud of that. The re
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fyi said:
the dukes of hazzard movie is completely insensitive and inappropriate
racist emblems bla
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Yogimus said:
God damned white people. Will they never learn?
Read more in Dukes of HazzardGreat prose....
for a racist
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Great prose....
for a racist
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|| Posted by scroff, July 10, 2005 09:09 AM ||God damned white people. Will they never learn?
|| Posted by Yogimus, July 11, 2005 01:55 PM ||the dukes of hazzard movie is completely insensitive and inappropriate
racist emblems blaze across the movie set as if it were nothing
|| Posted by fyi, August 4, 2005 02:07 PM ||Mikey:
My family is from the South, Alabama and Louisiana and I am proud of that. The rebel flag does not represent southern pride. It represents a group of people that fought to preserve a way of life based racism and hatred and an economic model that was not only cruel and hurtful to African Americans but the majority of whites as well, who would have benefited economically from the abolition of slavery.
Southern pride is hospitality, good BBQ,country music, blues and Louis Armstrong.
I liken it to Germans saying the Swastika is German Pride. No, it's symbol of hatred.
|| Posted by Nate Calloway, August 4, 2005 05:12 PM ||Well Nate - yours is ONE opinion. And you're one of those nimrods that will burn every history book just to ensure that it's never read.
Keep up the good work....
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