06-13-2020, 05:45 PM
(06-13-2020, 03:45 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Good post and I understand where your getting at. A POV I guess I never looked at before. Good job.
Does this mean I can't ever watch Dukes of Hazard reruns on TV? A car named General Lee w/a confederate flag on top. Prolly not.
I watched the Dukes as well, and my maternal grandmother who died before I was born was partial to it (the flag, I mean). She was an orphan who grew up in four or five different orphanages between New Orleans and Birmingham before she joined the Army. My grandpa, who was a pharmacist in Covington during the 60's and 70's, was close to a lot of black people in the community, and had them over to his house for cookouts frequently. However, in the basement, even long after grandma Alene was gone, the flag hung next to his pantry/photgraphy room above the CCM rowing machine. I remember it like yesterday. He certainly didn't view it as a symbol of hate, but also had no real attachment to it beyond a woman he met in the army and subsequently married.
From a historical standpoint, it's worth remembering. I have no problem seeing it in museums or textbooks.
Kind of makes you wonder, though. Lots of historical figures that we view as significant or great today killed a shit ton of people. Enslaved them, too, and sometimes on the basis or race and nationality. I don't want to see the things they did erased from the record book, good or bad, because it serves as a lesson.
