Does anyone get hassled for having the confederate flag on their GL?

[RoscoePColtrain]

I was just wondering what peoples experiences are having the confederate flag printed on their General Lee?  Has anyone ever been hassled or had their car vandalized?

Because of the continuing deterioration of the todays youth in terms of education, i'm sure not many know what it even is. 

[Charger-Bodie]

when i used to have my general lee clone , my x wife convinced my kids to hate the car because of its racist flag .....my response was simply , that if everyone sporting a confederate flag was bad, then so is every other flag waver ,because all that is is stereo typing . and that the dukes was about the most neutral show ever made!! but thats how it goes when you have a jelous vendictive mean person as an x!!.....by the way she was the only person who ever had anything negitive to say about the car!!

[6pkrunner]

People like to complain and whine about anything they can. So given the "enlightened" stand now taken by some individuals, I'm sure a good number would ensure their point of view was vocalized.

[Big Lebowski]

  Actually they're more offended by what comes out of your tailpipe, since global warming is your fault. The only recourse is to smash your Charger to comply with the Kyoto treaty, which of course will save the Earth from what evil man has done to mother Earth. Save the whales, save those snails, don't build that hospital there, it's a endangered cockroach area.
                                                These are the people who hassle you.

[41husk]

My buddy had his GL out saturday at a cruize and ir drew attention from all Black, white, hispanic, young and old, and I didn't here a single negative comment.

[Arkgl01]

Just last weekend my freind shaft (black guy) and I went to a show in the General. He said the General lee is the General lee and the flag has to be on there. He made good sense when he said people are racist not an object! Never thought of it that way? He said I could hate every white pillow case if I wanted. lmao..

I get lots of every race of people looking at my car and no one has ever said anything but how much they love it!

[Shakey]

My buddy had his GL out saturday at a cruize and ir drew attention from all Black, white, hispanic, young and old, and I didn't here a single negative comment.

No Italians at the show?   

Also, how come you used a capital B when you refered to the black folks and not the others?   

[41husk]

The italions were all out watching the sopronos, or drinking with the miks, wait I'm Irish and I don't remember drinking that night ,  All who peered at the GL seemed to be enjoying it regaurdless of race creed or color,  I would have added Republican, Democrat and Independent, but I didn't want to get the thread locked

[NYCMille]

That's actually true... most of us did watch the Soprano's....

[Mike DC]

   
On a GL, the flag isn't nearly as much of an issue as you might expect.  I'd guess literally 99% of the responses to the car are positive.
And it's not very related to people being white or black, either. 

I find the biggest racism complaints, which are still pretty darn few, come from a few self-rightous "educated" white people.  They assume that a rebel flag is really a covert demonstration of racism.  They assume the flag is really a "secret handshake" of the racism club or something.  They think that any black people who don't get furious about it right along with them just don't know any better, so it's their duty as a forward-thinking white person to get furious on behalf of the ignorant or intimidated black community. 
(How deeply racist & condescending is THIS attitude?)

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Either way, the rebel flag gets a lot more acceptance when it's sitting on top of an orange Charger.  It's more accepted on top of that car than anywhere else in the culture by a WIDE margin.  The fact that it was such a well-loved car and the whole thing was such an inoffensive TV series still does a lot to save it.

   

[Mean 318]

That's actually true... most of us did watch the Soprano's....

and I may of had a drink

[pettyfan43]

What is so funny is that I have NEVER heard a black person complain about that flag, on the General Lee or NOT. The ONLY people I have EVER heard complain are members of a group of people who I won't name because of the  that will sure follow I will just say uhhhh liberalocrat, yeah that's it.

That is NOT a stab at anybody, it is just my own personal experience, it is the political correctness at any price crowd that complains. 

[70charger_boy]

I have been in love with the general lee and the dukes since I was 6 years old.  I remember saying "When I grow up I'm gonna get that car"  Yes, it has a confederate flag on it, but I was six years old and had no clue what that meant.  All I know is no other show ever made can even come close to the dukes.  There was a lesson to be learned at the end of every episode.  They were NOT racists and the flag isn't a racist.  It's just a few people who use that flag that are racist that screw it up.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

Heritage, not hatred.  I am a KA for any of you familiar with college fraternities.  We have confederate flags displayed in some places, and everyone always takes it to be racist, when in reality it has absolutely nothing to do with racism.  The ignorance of people really pisses me off. 

And not all "liberalocrats" will make such an assumtpion.  There are a few very liberal guys in my house,  and they do not consider the flag racist.  The people who complain about the flag are all just ignorant people.

Just out of curiosity, did the new Dukes movie make you think about this?  I know there are some people complaining in the movie as Bo and Luke drive to Atlanta. 

[genlee1970]

I've never had and black folks make negative comments about the flag. It's been all good. In fact the most common remark is "Hey man, where's Daisy???"

I've heard more from the white folks. They seem to be more concerned.

This all started in the ninties with some one who obviously had way to much time on thier hands. I think the movie brought it up as a spoof of the origional controversy. It's all about context, and the General is about as harmless as they come.

[mikepmcs]

Never!
Everyone loves this car and when it's at the shop, people bring their kids by after school and take pictures and I let them climb around in it and they have a ball.

v/r
mike

[Ghoste]

Warning, contents liable to easily offend people who are easily offended.

[41husk]

Warning, contents liable to easily offend people who are easily offended.

[warriorbass05]

Never!
Everyone loves this car and when it's at the shop, people bring their kids by after school and take pictures and I let them climb around in it and they have a ball.

v/r
mike

This is really a matter of political correctness as people are finding ways to schmooze the special interest groups who run around crying wolf all the time...heritage is what it is  ( and I was born a yankee) LOL....

[aone415]

As a Black guy, I have to say that a GL car is always cool.  Now if you were to be flying a Confederate Flag on your lawn or from your non General Lee auto, then I'd probably think a little differently.  However, the flip side of the argument is that during the Civil War, many Black people (slaves) saw the Confederate flag as the embodiment of slavery.  Imagine if someone drove a BMW, Porsche, Benz or VW around with a swashstika on the roof.  Plenty of people would be pissed.  Sometimes people of all races take things a lil too seriously and a lil tooo far.  As a kid I always wanted to be Bo Duke (LOL) and drive the General.  As an adult I don't wanna be Bo (he listens to Country Music and I listen to hip-hop) but, I still would drive the General. 

[Charger_Fan]

Sometimes people of all races take things a lil too seriously and a lil tooo far. 

That's for sure.

[JimShine]

I had two encounters, both with white people. The condition is called "white mans guilt".

[aone415]

Yep...

Any "guilty' white guys with a GL wanna give it to me? 

[Mike DC]

   

Any "guilty' white guys with a GL wanna give it to me?  Cheesy

heh, heh, heh . . . I'm not quite that guilty just yet!

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Seriously, I think the recent DOH movie should have just been set in the 1970s for a whole bunch of reasons.  One of the benefits would be that the car's rebel flag wouldn't even rightfully be much of an issue anymore.  (No matter what the flag's status has become since the '70s, nobody can argue that it wasn't perfectly normal to see it painted on a stock car in that time & place.)  The GL's flag became an issue during the 2005 movie because the whole stupid movie had no business in modern times to begin with.

I can understand both sides of the issue to some extent.  Honestly, I think half the issue is that "the South" means a whole lot of things about your life & personal identity to a Southerner.  But "the South" to a non-Southerner is nothing more than an ugly chunk of history that they'd like to forget.

   

[2Gunz]

The Confederate flag is a symbol. And being a symbol it means different things to different people at different times.

In the Generals case It was to drive home the southern "good ole boy" feeling. And besides they had to put something on the

roof 

And I think 99% of the population gets it.


And really I think if you did a General without the flag that would raise a lot more questions.

[Mike DC]

 
I agree with that.  A GL replica would probably raise more questions without the flag that with it.

 

[Charger1973]

 
I agree with that.  A GL replica would probably raise more questions without the flag that with it.

 

I saw a GL model a few years ago and the flag was airbrushed off the picture of the car on the box.  I was a little worried...  I didnt buy it but I hope they didnt go so far to not include the flag decal with the model....  People just look for things to bitch about these days.   

The only people I have EVER heard complain about the General were mopar guys who hate the car because it "ruins a Charger".  Everyone else loves it.