June 26, 2015, - 4:02 pm
Can My Neighbor Still Drive His General Lee? People Who Demand Confederate Flag Dumping Tell Me to Tolerate Muslim Hate
As I’ve mentioned before, there’s a guy in my neighborhood who owns one of the few original “General Lee” cars driven on “The Dukes of Hazzard.” I wondered, this week, if he’ll be allowed to drive it around town, now that we’ve ascribed all kinds of evil to a flag, rather than a sick, murderous evildoer. After all, the car has a Confederate rebel flag on top of the cab. And then I remembered all of those mass murders of Blacks that occurred at the hands of those of us who saw the rebel flag while suffering through Jessica Simpson’s horrible “Dukes” movie (read my review) and those who watched the original “Hazzard” on TV in the ’70s and ’80s (I was not a fan of the show). “Gone With the Wind” features a Confederate flag, too. Should that be cinema non grata, too?
I’ve written in the past on this site how stupid I think it is to censor sales of Holocaust memorabilia and Nazi flags on eBay and elsewhere (though I don’t think Walmart should be in the swastika or death’s head biz). I’m libertarian on a lot of this stuff, as I think it’s stupid to create value in and more demand for things that are anathema. And it’s important to remember that things happened and not to deny history. That said, I don’t believe the Confederate battle flag is anything like a swastika-bearing flag. If it were, why would the mainstream media–which gushes over faux-badass “Kid Rock” a/k/a Bob Ritchie–allow this father of a half-Black kid (whom he fathered when he was a drug dealer) to wave the Confederate flag around? Why did they never say anything about it? Instead, it’s become a modern day iconic symbol for the South, to the point that one of those Blacks murdered by Dylann Roof voted to keep the flag flying over South Carolina’s Capitol.
Dylann Roof was a loser and an idiot. He didn’t know anything about the Confederacy. He declared that he hates Jews. And, yet, he didn’t seem to know that his beloved Confederacy had as one of its officials, Judah P. Benjamin. Benjamin, a Jew, was the Confederates States’ Secretary of War.
My favorite part of all of this is the Republicans who’ve joined the hypocritical liberal Dems in throwing the flag and Southern culture under the bus, all in the name of votes. Does spineless Nikki Haley, who believes in the conceit that she’ll be President (but never will be), really think that more Blacks will vote for her because she took down a flag? And then there’s RINO idiot Lindsey Graham. He’d have far more spine if he came out of the closet. This flag nonsense ain’t courage. Just pap. I would say that I wonder what Ms. Haley’s hubby thinks about this, as a White Southerner. But he’s too busy changing diapers and playing mommy while Darling Nikki plays the man. And you just can’t care what a guy who checked his testicles at the door thinks.
It’s weird that all of these phonies who ascribe modern-day mass murder to the rebel flag don’t have the slightest prob with Che Guevara T-shirts. Apparently, because he was Hispanic and part of the radical chic, he gets a pass for being a racist against Blacks and a mass murderer. Hey, just like Dylann Roof! But Roof isn’t a “cool Hispanic.” So, his brand of racism ain’t hip. And, also, Che Guevara T-shirt wearers = Obama voters. And we gotta keep the syndicate of ye old non-stop liberal Dem gravy train running.
And then there’s my neighbor, Mark. He’s not really my “neighbor” per se. He lives near me, though. He’s the guy with the General Lee. I don’t know where he made his money. But he used some of it to buy all kinds of fancy, exotic, and expensive cars. He’s a Chaldean–a Christian Iraqi immigrant.
And he’s got kitschy cars like the General Lee, which he drives around town in the summer. He also drives it in a Detroit event called “The Woodward Dream Cruise,” in which Metro Detroiters drive exotic, classic, or kitschy cool cars up and down Woodward Avenue on one Saturday every August. I wonder if Mark will be allowed into the mix of cars once they spot the “offensive,” mass-murderspirational flag on the top of the General Lee.
Mark is also a very nutty guy and a 9/11 Truther, who insists that the U.S. government perpetrated 9/11, sells drugs to America’s kids, and a whole buncha other “chazzerei” (junk/garbage). I’m not friendly with him, but have been held hostage to some of his ridiculous conspiracy theory conversations in a local Starbucks. So, I won’t feel too bad for him if he’s now troubled with his ownership of the General Lee.
But I do feel troubled by the groupthink hysteria that immediately sweeps America anytime anything bad happens–and anytime the left wants to trample on still-warm dead bodies for its agenda. Sadly, their anytime for that is all the time.
Remember, these are the same people who tell us to be TOLERANT! of Muslim hate speech calling for the death of Jews and Christians, Muslim demonstrations of Hezbollah flags–the flags under which hundreds of Americans were killed not so long ago, and tolerant of the most extreme and dangerous expressions of speech by ROT–the Religion of Terrorism.
These same people would rather take down the Confederate flag than the ISIS one. And that’s exactly the problem.
I’m sorry you are wrong.
no one will and should stop a private citizen from flying the confederate flag.At a States capital is an entirely different thing..Again the war has been over for 150 years ..they lost! get over it!.call it because of states rights if u will but the crux of the conflict was over Slavery .That was the only reason for the war..Look at history books many leading Confederates argued that the rightful place of blacks was in a subordinate
position to whites.
It is like the Nazi flag.it reminds one of a shameful history .if the Nazi flag flew over a Government building because it is part of German history Jews around the world would complain.
if you are arguing that the left is hypocritical because it never said anything about Kid Rock or the Dukes of Hazard you are making a mute point or at least being disengenous.what does that have to with anything?
African Americans have been bringing this up for years and no one listened .
For someone that looks at everything as antisemitic , even the smallest slights or criticism of Israel, you are very insensitive to the legitimate grievances of others.
Sanjay Bhardwaj on June 26, 2015 at 4:36 pm