http://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/dukes-hazz...150101689.html

I really have NO WORDS!!!!

This country is so screwed up its not funny!!

Another reason for me not to get cable. :)

Admittedly it is screwed up but the Dukes were not the cause.

Dude, I take it you are a Dukes fan?

I am proud to say I never watched a single episode.

I don't think I ever got more than about halfway through the intro before I either switched channels or turned the TV off.

If you are sad that the Dukes of Hazard is off TV then you are beyond help on so many different levels.

Interesting at this relatively late date the apparently ignorant use of Confederate iconography to make the show look all South-y, in spite of the S&B notorious association with overtly racist attitudes (the lost cause mythology notwithstanding).

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If that was directed at me, no I was not a fan but it was only a TV show. Plenty of other things screwed up this country.

Have you seen CSA the movie?
Disturbing yet intriguing alternate history.

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In the 1970s you would see that flag in Ohio pretty regularly, on cars and even in dorm room windows. I think maybe American society then did not see it as offensive as today. Maybe as a nation we had our collective blinders on.

Interesting that Andy Griffith and The Waltons didn't need the S&B iconography.

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Quoting yourself is fine Pio...just as long as you do not start referring to yourself in the third person, like that farm animal over in AK;)

Doubtful. I have never met anyone who displayed that flag who wasn't making a racial (racist) statement.

Actually I can remember way back in the day before the Civil Rights movement heated up, I'm talking maybe early to mid 1950's, when that flag was more of an anti-Yankee thing rather than an anti-black thing.

Of course back then we didn't have no Nigga problems down heah.

Dey knew their place and stayed in it.

It wasn't until them damned outside agitatin Yankees came down here and started putting ideas in their haids is when all this heah trouble started.

And a lot of biker gangs, college kids, etc. adopted it/hung it in the frat house to be cool and "outlawish" without stopping to think how much pain that flag represented.

I wish it was not the confederate battle flag and did not stand for what it does, because I rather like the design.

The two are inextricably intertwined. The anti-Yankee sentiment is rooted in the Lost Cause. The cause that was lost was the Southern Way Of Life. The Southern Way of Life was rooted in white privilege enabled by the enslavement of the blacks.

I'm a little older than you and I grew up in a southern state during Jim Crow. I've eaten at Whites Only lunch counters, drunk from Whites Only water fountains, peed in Whites Only restrooms and fished in the lake at Robert E. Lee Memorial Park (which still exists and is still so named).

This southern state was Maryland, a slave state though it stayed in the Union. Harriet Tubman was enslaved in Maryland. John Wilkes Booth was a Marylander. Get away from Baltimore or the DC suburbs (some of them) and you're in the South..... still.

Southern culture and all its iconography is racist to the core.

Dude, I'm 68 and was born and raised in Florida.

I've done all those things too.

I never had a black kid in school with me until college.

I never had a conversation with a black person until I was in the Military.

They stayed in their part of town and we stayed in ours.

Then you should know I'm right. ;)

The great wailing and gnashing of teeth begins.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/dukes-of-ha...037825885.html

Old Fashioned values?

I dunno.

Like I said, I could never make it past the intro.

It looked pretty fucking dumb to me.

In 1860 our country was pretty much racist to the core, although most of the free north and much of the slave south realized slavery was wrong. Even that traitor with all those places currently named after him.

FWIW, Europe was pretty much racist to the core in 1860.

All I know is that I was taught to hate "Damned Yankees" before I was taught to hate "Niggers". But like I said, in the 60's, when the civil rights movement started gaining steam, the focus changed somewhat.

I'm not arguing that the Flag isn't racist, it's racist as Hell.

It's just that after the Civil Rights movement, it became even more so IMO.

A celebration of ignorance - as is most television fare.

I stick with Netflix and Hulu - will watch the Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, some British series we like, and any good movies/documentaries that pop up (and those are few and far between these days).

I actually saw a black woman in an Andy Griffith Episode!

Check out the crowd behind Barney starting at about the 4 minute mark!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_vKNCMLg0

There were some pretty good TV comedies back during the time the Dukes of Hazard was airing.

Some of my favorites were WKRP, Barney Miller, and Taxi.

I did like Rowan and Martin's Laugh In - so over the top it was funny.

But I was young then . . .

Sock it to Me!

http://clickamericana.com/wp-content...n-laugh-in.jpg

I remember a boxing match between Wilt Chamberlain and Sammy Davis Jr.

Just noticed how white the cast was. (edit)

How about the one between Gary Coleman and Ken Norton?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQbAHunyZ8

My sisters used to hit the floor and dance like idiots when American Bandstand and Soul Train came on.

Me - no dancing - but a good opportunity to sneak in their rooms and create chaos. :D

It surely must piss off my Republican neighbors here in western Howard when my black friends drop by then.:)

Most of our TV watching is BBC in America onn the local PBS channels. We used to watch NCIS because we like Pauley Perrette (Cote de Pablo is not hard on the eyes either) but it now comes on too late. TV can put me to sleep faster than anything.

Just knowing you're their neighbor probably pisses them off. ;) :)

I usually try to read myself to sleep, but these latest threads induced me to pull up and re-watch Ken Burns' The Civil War the past few evenings. It's on Netflix.

Les Nessman letting us know that turkeys can't fly will always be with me :)

I know the one to our left hates my guts, he has vandalized the place twice but it is always in the wee small hours. Funny part is that the cop who was here to see if there was any useful evidence said that with us we are so quiet and keep to our selves it would be like living next door to a church.

Frankly, The Dukes of Hazzard is a cartoon where a car is the star along with Catherine Bach's body.

Ditching it does strike me as overkill...

+1. I don't remember any adults watching it because they wanted to.

Still do...................and more determined to keep them on than ever.

Other than Daisy wiggling her butt around, I saw nothing about that show to draw my interest. Just another parade of goofy rednecks and impossible car tricks.

Every episode was the same.

You are not blasting AC/DC at midnight from your patio are you?;)

Motorhead.