From the June 26, 2015, Chicago Tribune by Lee V. Gaines.
The director of the Volo Auto Museum is committed to keeping one of the original General Lee cars from the "Dukes of Hazzard" TV show. And that is despite the fact it still has the hand-painted Confederate flag on its roof.
Brian Grams says: "Our take is, it's part of our history. Taking the car off display or painting over the flag doesn't change the facts. The flag was always there."
More power to him. It is about time people started standing up against the vendetta now being waged.
I enjoyed "The Dukes of Hazzard" but always felt it made Southern whites look like dumb yokels. Why would those opposed by against it now because of the rooftop Confederate flag?
Warner Brothers has already announced that it will no longer license toy versions of the General Lee, the orange 1969 Dodge Charger from the show which ran from 1979 to 1985. And that is because of the flag. But wait a minute, the car is named for General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and a slave owner. That is probably grounds for dropping it as well.
Grams says that his General Lee is the only surviving one with a hand-painted Confederate flag on its roof. vehicles portraying it in later seasons were machine-made. "We are a museum. We like to preserve history, and this is history."
Now, i Need to Go Out and Buy the General Lee Toy, But Only One With a Confederate Flag on Top. --Old Secesh
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