The Black Leather Jackets episode
The episode just abruptly ends. Did the aliens end up destroying the planet at the end?
shareProbably. Just another reason this is one of the worst TZ episodes ever.
shareThe guy who played the father in that episode was that racist Uncle Jesse from The Dukes of Hazard
shareDid not know that.
shareBut you knew that the Uncle Jesse character was racist, right?
shareHey Millsey, are you trying to say that Uncle Jesse was the one who painted the rebel flag atop the General Lee?
shareI thought it was Cooter who painted it and it was Jesse that gave the car that racist name. Don't forget that flag was also the front license plate on the sheriffs car and the flag also was raised in front of the county buildings
shareYeah, those were different times, Millsey. The old Confederate flag at that time was more about history/heritage than hate. Even a few state flags had parts of them with the stars and bars on it. Things are way different now.
shareI don't think they were different times. They were racist then and still racist today. My college professor told me
shareYeah, probably. Probably always will be one group or another looking down their noses at another group. But regarding the rebel flag----it really was not a racist thing at all back in the day. I recall getting those flags from trips Gettysburg and the Confederate hats had the flag atop them. I got a silkscreen t-shirt made of the rebel flag in 1981 at the Wildwood New Jersey boardwalk. In high school I had a rebel flag license plate on the front of my jeep.
No one ever remarked that I was racist and I certainly was not at all. I was friends with the only black kid in my school. It was a complete non-issue back in the 1980s before people made it an issue. I would never have the rebel flag displayed anywhere today as it would denote a connotation that I would not want to be associated with.
I'm appalled right now regarding your upbringing
shareMillsey, how old of a dude are you? I think we are just having some generational differences here. Believe me---as crazy as it sounds now the Confederate flag way back 35-40 years ago was a completely different thing.
share22 but my college professor is his 60s and I listen to what he tells me
shareThat's cool, Millsey. I am in my early 50s. It was just simply a lot different back decades ago regarding the Confederate flag and certainly a host of other things. I told you about how I had the shirt when I was like 11 and the license plate when I was like 17 back in the 1980s. Well fast forward to like the 2000s and my one uncle parked his truck up at my place while he was away on a fishing trip. He had the Confederate plate on his truck. Needless to say I got a board from the garage and covered it up so no one would see it and think that I supported what it came to signify by that time. The times were so very different by then and what it stood for by that time was so very different.
I applaud you on your willingness to discuss and listen to varying ideas of how things were and how things change so much over time. You're a good dude, Millsey!
Here is the thing though, people who wave the confederate flag around even today still try to say it's about "history and heritage." Ultimately, it either boils down to ignorance/racism or both.
shareYeah, I would NEVER display it today or anytime in recent years to be sure. It was quite different many decades ago but the younger generation would probably be unable to understand that.
I think maybe when it is displayed today it is not just merely a racist statement but perhaps one that is anti-government or at least anti-establishment against the status quo. Sometimes I would like to ask some of these people who display the stars and bars what point they are exactly trying to signify with it. But probably most of them are stupid Trump people so why even bother. LOL.