Discussion for article #238136
When someone named Bubba paints over the Flag of Southern Treason we know that society has evolved.
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When’s he gonna rename it “General Sherman?”
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And redo the colors? I would suggest a British Racing Green for the exterior with a Biscuit leather interior.
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I’d really like to know why CBS allowed the battle flag to be used back in the late 70s after it’s modern resurrection and association with anti Civil Rights racism…
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It’s the South. Biscuits and gravy, if you please.
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Sigh…as we rush to ban the symbol, does anyone else feel like we’re missing the point?
And by that I mean, banning the symbol won’t end racism. All it does is sooth a bit.
We really need to have a serious conversation about what racism and racial intolerance are.
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Isn’t the larger problem grown men who name their cars?
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Even an asshole can get one right once in a while.
Burn!
Paint it blue, put the Stars&Stripes on it and call it the General Grant.
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No no no. You CANNOT paint over the General Lee! That’s like erasing a vital part of the mythology of the racist South!
What’s next, changing the horn from “Whistling Dixie” to “America the Brave”?
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I had the Matchbox General Lee when I was a kid. That and the Starsky and Hutch one, among hundreds of others.
I gotta find those fucking things. I’m getting all nostalgic.
The flag has gotta go but, please, keep the Daisy Dukes! Seriously, though, we’ve clearly reached the tipping point regarding opposition to a symbol of racism.
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Was it a little bit of a freudian slip that he said “American flag”?
I think that this idiocy has gone far enough. Do people really think that if we paint over CSA battle flags and destroy statues of CSA generals that suddenly the black community is going to not have the problems that have brought them to where they are.
What a great idea! Paint over a flag and destroy a statue and there won’t be anymore out of wedlock births, drugs, lack of respect for education, or black-on-black crime.
What a joke! Until the black community solves their own problems, nothing is going to improve.
This from Pierre van den Berghe, RACE AND RACISM. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1967:
On Page 4…
“For every hundred published racial attitude studies done in the United States, we could perhaps find five to ten in all the rest of the world.”
THIS WAS PUBLISHED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO!!
Good people of all colours, from both sides of the Mason Dixon line and from abroad have been grappling with this “American Dilemma” academically, politically and on laymen’s terms.
Moreover, there is a spate of multiracial people, the progeny of whites both North and South living IN BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH.
In addition, especially among the young, multiracial identitiies assume a centrality unheard of just 25 or 30 years ago.
It is indeed a conundrum…the people most likely to express ANY desire to come to terms with the so-called “race” problem seem to be those least likely to be infected with its hatreds (such as people here at TPM).
Lastly–and this is something which is quite disturbing–the DEPTH of feeling of those on the “wrong side of history” assumes proportions incomprehensible by those on “our side”.
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Wagonmound said: Until the black community solves their own problems,…
Respectfully a hulluva lot of the black community problems are a direct result of centuries of racial suppression from the white community. Do you expect them to pull equivalent schools, housing loans, and legal representation out of thin air? I am not saying that the black community can not solve problems. But it would be nice if the field were level and people got a fighting chance.
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Nice sentiment, but I can’t help but wonder why he wanted the car in the first place. Flag aside, the show, even in its heyday, represented some of the worst television had to offer.
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At Last!
A poster who recognizes his true value.
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