[Smogger]

I'm black and I loved the General Lee. Every kid black or white that I know loved that show, and that car. I watched it religiously.

Before the era of political correctness no one found it offensive.

[BullDawg28]

you're dead on..that car was better than K.I.T., Herbie, and was right on par with the batmobile in TV automotive coolness..

[Red Badger]

There's a black guy around here that has a Confederate Flag plate on the front of his car. I've not asked him why. But I will one day just out of curiosity.....

[Flux Capacitor]

Yeah, same here.... I'm just a year older than the show and I was a Dukes freak as a little kid. I kept watching it even after Coy and Vance showed up (all the while thinking "who are these chumps?").

I'm not going anywhere near this movie, though. No way am I gonna listen to these idiots tell me that peabrained Jessica Simpson is an appropriate substitute for the lovely Catherine Bach, or that Johnny Freakin' Knoxville ought to be a Duke Boy.

And this whole Confederate Flag thing.... geez. I guarantee you that by trying to tack on this "disclaimer", they're going to alienate almost as many people than if they'd just left it off altogether.

-Dan

[NJ Neocon]

I'm white. I'm Republican. I campaigned for Bush. I am a vet. I hate political correctness.

I hate that flag.

Having said that, it is the height of hypocrisy and inanity to mesh with the G.Lee this way. Make the movie and be faithful of don't make it.

[brownsfan]

"Before the era of political correctness no one found it offensive."

Bingo! That's how a lot of the PC crowd makes a living. We aren't smart enough to know what offends us, so they spend there days looking for things we should find offensive.

[sticker]

You proved my case, the only people that show could offend was/are white southerners.

[Drew68]

Before the era of political correctness no one found it offensive.

Most still don't find it offensive. Rather, most are probably indifferent.

My guess is that the PC folks have to look long and hard for someone who is truly offended and then they make that person's voice representative of everyone in that particular group.

[Christian4Bush]

I'm black and I loved the General Lee. Every kid black or white that I know loved that show, and that car. I watched it religiously. Before the era of political correctness no one found it offensive.

"American black" dittoes...I think that when people say that they "want to go back to the way things were", they mean when things seemed so much more simple...

To quote President Bush, when Rush interviewed him late in August (talking about the previous ambivalence about dealing, or not dealing, with threats), "Those days are gone."

I know what you mean, though. And I'm too dang fat to jump into my car...I'd probably take out the window, the steerin' wheel, and both of my legs tryin' to do it.

[JayB]

My parents are Indian (I always disliked that Indo-American label... but I digress), but I loved the Dukes of Hazzard. I've got a model of the General Lee a friend gave me for my birthday. I haven't built it yet. But man, that show was fun.

Funny thing is that most people don't get offended by it unless they are told to. Most of my friends just thought it was stupid and moved on.

[MavMin]

More people probably watched just to see Daisy in those shorts, yet the Confederate Flag was not a problem until the NAACP needed something to stir up trouble. If there is no trouble there is no need for the organization and if there is no organization where would the leaders salary be?

The trouble is that it backfired. More folks fly the flag now then they did before the "war" was declared on it by the NAACP. Even Yankees buy them. There are more Southern heritage groups than ever and the memberships are growing. I am sured they freaked out when Strom's love child announced that she and all her kin were going to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They woke a sleeping dog and in the end hurt folks on both sides needlessly.

Ignorance is a damning thing. Just as ignorance and the bigotry of the KKK is dishonoring to the very heritage they claim to love this ignorance distorts history and only breeds undue hatred.

If every person, Yank or Reb, Black or White would read "The South Was Right" they would develop different attitudes about that conflict and the flag.

The Union army forced Blacks to fight for them and used them basically as cannon fodder while the White troops raped their women. Interestingly, the same glorious Union army kept their army segregated until the late 1950's yet when you think of segregation you only think of the South. The EP only freed Blacks in the South hoping it would cause a massive uprising yet it did not happen. Why?

Why could Southron men go off to war and leave their wives, children and assets without fear of the slaves raping their wives and plundering their assets? Maybe things were a lot different than we have been told.

Am I defending slavery? No, but it has been a fact of life in many countries throughout the world since the Fall of Man and still exists. Indeed, it started in MA with Native Americans and the ships were harbored in Boston, not Charleston or Savannah. Yet, we only hear of the sin of the South. The Yanks are portrayed as righteous. If I beat you up, I can tell the tale.

Indeed, what a grand victory. It took four years to beat an army that you outnumbered 4 to 1 and the comparison between assets is like comparing Fort Knox to a five year old's piggy bank. It took a Reb to beat a Reb because Jeff Davis as Secreatary of the Army both enlarged and modernized the Army that beat him. More Rebel prisoners died than Yank prisoners and yet the only one we see on the History channel is Andersonville. Yanks might need to reconsider their chest beating and do a little study.

Black sentries guarded the Confederate camps as was shown in an 1861 Harper's Weekly drawing. I don't know about you but if I was consistently abusing someone I would not give them a gun to watch over me while I slept or when the enemy was often very close.

The South had its sins, but overall they were correct in their right to secede, which was originally a Northern idea, and far more righteous than the North in battle and in treatment of civilians and private property. Sherman and Lincoln would both be hung as war criminals under Geneva Convention standards.

Boycott the movie. The toy car is still sold. http://www.ediecast.com/cgi-bin/edlist.cgi http://www.hardtofindauctions.com/9330/104231173.php
Everyone that loved the show should buy one. The increased sales would drive the PC crowd nuts. And for the men who have Confederate ancestors call 1-800-MY-South and jine up. Honor your ancestor and respect yourself. Ladies, there is not an 800 number, but here is an e-mail to get you started on your UDC membership. hqudc@rcn.com Yes, there are Black members and more would be welcomed. If you are a copperhead contact one of these organizations and they will tell you about other organizations you can join to be a part of the search for truth and honor.

The true history is not taught in the schools. It is not taught by hatemongers on either side. However, it is available if you desire the truth. Remember, Deo Vindice, God vindicates.

[wardaddy]

Bump.....I'm proud of ya!

(I know that makes yer day)

[mafree]

I'm black too and I don't recall any fuss over the "General Lee" when that show was on. My parents, including a mother raised in the South, liked the show and if the Confederate Flag was a problem for them they would never have watched it and probably would have protested it.

The Confederat Flag issue is really much ado about nothing. Can we deal with the education gap please?