Marcus is probably right -- it will be a big surprise if the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie will even have a "General Lee" automobile in it, let alone one with a Confederate flag on the roof. (I won't be diappointed if Daisy Duke shorts make a comeback, though, I must admit).
The reason this was acceptable 25 years ago is that the NAACP had a plausible reason for its existence then. Today it does not, so it needs a bogey man to chase for fundraising purposes. It's tactic is to scare the daylights out of elderly black people by telling them they need to send the NAACP a $20 check immediately, for there is a KKK guy hiding around every corner. Why, just look how often they bring out those Confederate flags, they say. What more proof do you need?
This is the same shabby racket the Southern Poverty Law Center is involved in. It issues "intelligence reports" not about any actual crime, violence or act of discrimination, but simply about anyone who happens to be proud of the heroism and sacrifice of his or her ancestors who may have been a part of Robert E. Lee's army. Southerners know their family histories. The idiotic SPLC even issued a "report" insinuating that Ron Maxwell, the Hollywood director of "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" was a KKK sympathizer! These people are lunatics.
More and more people are seeing through this fraud, thankfully. A couple of years ago a majority of black voters in Mississippi voted to retain the state flag as it is, Confederate flag symbol and all. They are not buying the lies fed to them by the NAACP and the SPLC.
