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‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Stars Defend Show’s Confederate Flag Use: ‘The Car Is Innocent’


https://www.thewrap.com/dukes-of-hazzard-confederate-flag-controversy-tom-wopat-john-schneider/

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Robert Johnson (BET owner, BLM supporter, advocate for reparations) says a lot black people watched and don't mind the Dukes of Hazzard or GWTW.

See video in article. About 3 minutes in.

https://summit.news/2020/06/25/pew-analysis-shows-only-1-in-6-blm-protesters-are-black/?fbclid=IwAR2CA6pJmUSVDP8ooTkB3DFM-f3BBJqXcaHc2az9kiFUrfhwj567D3HhcSo

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Is that Robert Johnson the guitar player who sold his soul to the devil for kick ass guitar skills?

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Most African Americans don't mind the Dukes. Like a lot of "offended people" it seems to be mostly some Caucasians who have taken it upon themselves to decide for minorities what they should find offensive.

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MLK said "I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice "

MX said "The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have.
If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.”

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no disrespect to MX but what the fuck does that mean?

especially this bit:
If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems

Have white liberals said or done something that means negros are sitting around not solving their own problems? since 1965?

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It's like jazz. If you have to ask...

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