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She prolly never gave it a second thought until this uproar.  She is a bandwagon jumper like most on this issue.  Looking out for votes, just as Wal-Mart and Amazon trying to protect their $.  Also, have to throw NASCAR in this group.  Political correctness run amuk. If it was such a major issue, it should have been on the front burner of ppl's minds everyday, not when convenient.

Seems like you want slavery mentioned.  Do you not realize there were slaves in the North as well?  Slavery is always thought of as happening in the South by the misinformed.

You'll never convince the uninformed of that.

Always gonna have dumbarses out there.

Always gonna have dumbarses out there.

I understand the push to take the Confederate flag down at the South Carolina and Alabama state capitols. But the Dukes? Really?
 
I get that to a lot of people in this country, the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of racism - it's hard for black Americans not to interpret it that way when some of the most famous pictures of the most vehement racists of the twentieth century, like George Wallace, feature massive Confederate flags flying all over the place. The internet is covered with images of the flag at KKK rallies, past and present.
 
But I also get that to millions of Southerners, many of whom are black as well, the flag is a symbol of Southern regional pride. To them, it's meant to identify a particular region, not a racial superiority complex. Charlie Daniels wrote one of the most interesting pieces I've read about this particular issue, in which he talked about growing up in the South during the 1930s, when most people in the United States looked down on the region and its inhabitants. To him, the flag symbolized the pride Southerners held in stark defiance of the condescending views adopted by Americans in other regions of the country. In the same way that the South has embraced the "redneck" persona despite the term's once pejorative connotation, the flag, to many Southerners, was a way to maintain some sort of pride while being looked down upon by everyone else - this is literally the exact same reason college football is so big in the South (seriously, look that up). This is true among even some of the most liberal Southerners; one of my best friends while in Alabama, who was so far left he bordered on communist, owned a Confederate flag and proudly espoused his Southern identity.
 
I think the key element the media has missed in this debate is the context in which the flag and other Confederate symbols are used. Is the flag a symbol of racism at a KKK rally? Undoubtedly, but the American flag arguably is as well in those instances - after all, they're exercising their genuinely American right to free speech while calling for a purely white America, not just a white South. Is it a symbol of racism at bubba's fish camp up by the lake when he has it flying while he's kicked back on the front porch with a six pack? No, it's a symbol of a redneck telling the world that he's a redneck, that he enjoys being a redneck and that he likes to do redneck things and have good redneck times in a redneck part of the country. Is it a symbol of racism in a museum, in a textbook or at a reenactment of a Civil War battle? No, it's a symbol of one of the defining periods of American history, in which our character, unity and integrity as a nation were defined for generations to come.
 
Is it a symbol of racism on top of the General Lee? No, it's a symbol of the rebelliousness that's embodied by the main characters, Bo and Luke Duke, while they're speeding down the highway at a hundred miles an hour, causing problems for the local sheriff, foiling the plans of the local corrupt political boss, straightenin' the curves and flattenin' the hills. Seriously, was the show racist? Absolutely not. Did any one of the characters on the show espouse anything even remotely racist for one second of air time? No. They never even came close.
 
Is it a symbol of racism at the statehouse in South Carolina, where Strom Thurmond served as Governor and made numerous stump speeches advocating hardline segregationist policies? Yes, and it has no place being flown on the grounds of a capitol that should be open to all, that once voted to suppress the rights of millions of black South Carolinians, and that only ever started flying the flag as a protest against civil rights during the 1960s. Is it a symbol of racism at the statehouse down in Alabama, where George Wallace famously made several openly racist speeches, where Jefferson Davis himself oversaw the affairs of the Confederacy while the capitol of the short-lived nation was located in Montgomery during the early days of the Civil War, and which hundreds of black protesters were repeatedly barred from approaching during the marches from Selma? To argue that it isn't, and that it shouldn't come down as a result, would be asinine. Is its brother, the first national flag of the Confederacy, a symbol of racism at the capitol in Austin, where it flies alongside the flags of the five other nations of which Texas has been a part during its history? No, it's a symbol of the reverence with which Texans view their history - good and bad parts alike - just like it is when it flies next to those same five flags outside the Texas Historical Commission, and just like the seal of the Confederacy is when placed next to the seals of the United States, Mexico, France and Spain as those five seals encircle the seal of the Republic of Texas on the floor of the rotunda inside the capitol building.
 
Context, folks. Context. I think most Americans - black, white and whatever other color - understand that. I think the media analysts and fringe elements, who are just about the only ones pushing this issue, don't. Maybe that's why they're all so surprised when they see the results of opinion polls like the one below:
 

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Leave the Duke boys alone. They were never meanin' no harm, and they didn't do anybody any either.

Just a platform for the misinformed.

And still being run by them, it seems!

And still being run by them, it seems!

It amazing LRF.  All because a sorry lowlife nutcase (in lieu of the cuss words he deserves) killed 9 good Christians, and had a confederate flag behind him in a picture.  If it was a poster of Dineyworld, would we condemn it & all who go there?
if they want to start a movement to lynch Dylann Roof, I'd be all for it (and may God forgive me)!

If you want to get right down to it, so did the original flag of the U.S. I'm glad our fore fathers had a vision for a better country, but we need to call it like it is.  Right?

You're correct and I wish I could remember exactly.  Think I might have seen it reported on Hot Air, but my rush to the porcelain goddess to regurgitate my supper followed by Alka-seltzers and 4 Rolaids left my old feeble brain in turmoil.
My wife found me stumbling around with a blank look on my face, eyes glazed over mumbling, "What in the cornbread h-ll is going on".  

Any of you geniuses thought about the waste of funds this would cause digging up ground? 

Can they possess guns in Denmark? If that was my girl, I would be waiting when they were released and exact my revenge. I could do two months to get even.

Seems like I remember the DOJ doing an investigation into something similar as to what it seems you could be referring to.  And they decided what?

​you think Al is a preacher?  For whom?  Lmao

Wait -- what's that I hear?  Oh, it's silence from obama. Not a word about this.  I guess we see where his true concern is.  Maybe the gay thing is just politics.  But -- on the other hand if these isis gay pushers were waving a Confederate Flag then obama would be all up in their business!     SMH...

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​My main point on most subjects like this is that neither gay marriage or the Confederate Flag or a million other things should be decided at the federal level...it's a state decision.
Each state can decided it's own solutions and if you don't like it, work to change it or move to one of the other 49 (or 56 if you're Obama).
 

NBC has shown that lying is not a problem. They are only mad that Williams made it public.
Trump did not use any racial slurs or say anything strange or derogatory. He told the truth which is that Mexico's best citizens are not coming across the border...... and that simply will not work, especially to a network that panders to liberals. I am sure they are afraid that if they did not try to get rid of Trump, it would somehow translate into bad ratings in their upcoming presidential election slanted coverage both on NBC and MSNBC. 

​Stop listening to the clowns that talk about Fox...most likely because they are on networks that are being clobbered by Fox.

Absolutely agree, it is a shame when the POTUS is the lead race baiter out there.  What a leader the U.S. has!

Wussification of America!

Like mentioned before...I wish black  Americans would focus on the genocide that is occurring in the streets of America at the hand of their own socio-culture. I mean thousands of young black men are dying for why???can anyone tell??? I mean dang people let's focus some more on the past and a flag. Folks it's our history as a collective good and bad. But to ignore the real threat to black America is insane...if black leaders don't step up and lead...if the families don't stand up take their children back from the streets than all is for not! To hell with a flag or the tragic past...learn from it but we have so many more priblems that deserve attention than this rhetoric.  

At the rate this is headed with wanting the removal of statues and exhuming bodies from graves, the statue of Sam Houston may be next.  Hell, may have to rename SHSU.  All this because Sam Houston was a slave owner.  Ppl this is all a part of our history, whether we like it or not.  This cannot be expunged like a criminal record, we are going to continue to live with it. Neither a flag, nor a gun caused the tragedy in SC, it was the idiot on the other end.