‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Star John Schneider: The Rebel Flag Means “fighting the System”

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  • Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
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  • @Rc-ho4sv
    @Rc-ho4sv 2 года назад +330

    😂😂😂 We need better schools and education system

    • @jjc4577
      @jjc4577 Год назад +14

      I'd settle for schools and education system that does not indoctrinate.

    • @Rc-ho4sv
      @Rc-ho4sv Год назад +5

      @@jjc4577 wishful thinking.

    • @yaboidustin2447
      @yaboidustin2447 Год назад +10

      Yeah. Schools like where John went to we get people who don't assume a battle flag that was seldom used is an extremely racist symbol

    • @jjc4577
      @jjc4577 Год назад +3

      @@Rc-ho4sv don't I know it.

    • @StrykerPrimeProductions
      @StrykerPrimeProductions Год назад +4

      Preach!!

  • @Norma-eq3iq
    @Norma-eq3iq Год назад +38

    Such grace answering this question John love you!

    • @naaimshareef
      @naaimshareef Месяц назад

      @Norma-eq3lq As a 44 years old Blackman i wouldn't even waste my breath on that Confederate flag should be taking down. John Schneider said that Beyonce getting into country music is like a dog marking it territory,. Your man John has shown his true mentality.

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Месяц назад

      His answer was basically "when i was a kid and didnt know what it stood for I thought it stood for fighting the system. And I dont want to change even now that I know what it ACTUALLY means."

    • @DougZeller-l7d
      @DougZeller-l7d 18 дней назад

      Sure is triggering to the ❄ though.

  • @chitopuertoricousa9962
    @chitopuertoricousa9962 2 года назад +70

    me and my brother ( r.i.p.) we use to watch the duke of Hazzard we loved the show and the car

    • @pennybenton5607
      @pennybenton5607 10 месяцев назад +5

      Lost a brother myself. God bless you 🙏

    • @BrandonJowls-kt8gi
      @BrandonJowls-kt8gi 3 месяца назад

      @@pennybenton5607 I lost my money. God bless you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

    • @stlmtndew2654
      @stlmtndew2654 2 месяца назад

      RIP

  • @JayDogTitan-he6wo
    @JayDogTitan-he6wo Год назад +67

    In Hazzard county you were treated like family no matter what color you were or if you were an alien from another planet, I'm proud to say I own the entire DVD set of the Dukes and am a huge fan and always will be, as far as the Confederate flag? let people cry, they'll get over it., Very well said John!!!

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад +3

      Oh really ? How many black friends did the Dukes have ? None.

    • @treysloane7444
      @treysloane7444 11 месяцев назад

      Well said, Jay!!! Well said!!!

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 11 месяцев назад

      Not only did the Americans love it but it was probably the most popular show in Australia when it was on everybody was watching.

    • @jimmyc7540
      @jimmyc7540 9 месяцев назад +6

      They had many black friends starting right from the very first episode his name was Brody then there was Otis J Christmas special and they had many black characters in positive roles such as in law enforcement Sheriff little FBI agents so don't bother commenting on it. Maybe except for your favorite show The Cosby Show oh that's right he's a serial rapist and that show still on TV. You can't cancel a black formatting family television show let's not forget about Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons both racist TV shows . Which I found both very amusing and funny I guess I have thicker skin. I would never ask a network to refuse airing a show because it offended me it's called a remote control you change the channel.

  • @ericadaniel3710
    @ericadaniel3710 2 года назад +505

    This show was not racist ever. We watched every Friday. I am a black female

    • @johnyoung9874
      @johnyoung9874 Год назад +22

      Thank you , im a white old man and I use to watch Sanford and Son, we loved the show !

    • @coldhardtruth233
      @coldhardtruth233 Год назад +13

      I'm white and loved Sanford and still watch him on RUclips

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      The car was named after one of the biggest racists in history. A guy who was responsible for thousands of young men being killed in his fight to keep slavery. Robert E Lee. It doesn't get much more racist than that

    • @MountainsArePretty1234
      @MountainsArePretty1234 11 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@johnyoung9874Yes sir. Sanford and son, Good Times, the Jeffersons, etc all great shows! Other great ( but little less old ) shows were Martin, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, etc!

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 11 месяцев назад +6

      In the show black people were just like anybody else they were just characters in the episode they weren't stereotypes they weren't there because they were black they were just ordinary people alongside ordinary people which is surely what we're aiming for . Instead of all this I've got to be in a hate group because I'm different to you .

  • @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983
    @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 Год назад +67

    The whole dukes of Hazzard show was simply about neighbors-helping-neighbors in addition to fighting a corrupt system!

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад +3

      Yeah, as long as the neighbours were white. Or name the episode where the Dukes helped out their black neighbours ? This was supposed to be rural Georgia after all

    • @Grizzly_Adams.
      @Grizzly_Adams. 11 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@jupitermoongauge4055that sounds a tad bit racist.

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 11 месяцев назад +1

      I was having problems with public officials and said I'm sick to death of this Dukes of Hazzard style politics and they actually knew what I meant , which was quite funny because it was in Australia

    • @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983
      @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@James-kv6kb that is terrific! Not that you were having the trouble but they actually knew what you were saying about the Dukes of Hazzard . According to Miss Daisy Duke there's a reunion coming up with the remaining cast. We'll see.

    • @D4L_457
      @D4L_457 10 месяцев назад

      White neighbors helping white neighbors. We was dumb enough to think y'all had changed, but trump did one good thing and showed us y'all haven't.

  • @auntbee8581
    @auntbee8581 Год назад +53

    John tells it like it is !

    • @naaimshareef
      @naaimshareef Месяц назад

      @auntbee8581 John is telling it like it is for all the the good ol boys and all the good ol girls.

    • @jasonsmith2439
      @jasonsmith2439 Месяц назад +1

      @@naaimshareef yall just too damn sensitive

    • @naaimshareef
      @naaimshareef Месяц назад

      @@jasonsmith2439 No a lot of my people can see you all for who you really & truly are.

  • @hotrodeldorado811
    @hotrodeldorado811 2 года назад +545

    I love the show, I love the flag, as a black man...... I love the Dukes of Hazzard, the flag don't mean anything, it's a great wholesome show, I've seen every episode a dozen times over, both 1997 movies too..... All and all, it's just a comedy show

    • @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043
      @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043 2 года назад

      Hey there.
      The rebel flag is the flag that stands for rebellion against a corrupt Authority.
      What was the show mainly about?
      Prohibition of alcohol.
      They ran moonshine. The rebel flag was a big middle finger to the corrupt local government, mayor, and the police.
      They were always stopping Boss Hog's corrupt scheming. That flag was a middle finger to corruption so of course real world Politicians are going to negatively propagandise against any sign that is in derect opposition to their authority.

    • @cameroncooper9501
      @cameroncooper9501 2 года назад +40

      Didn't we all loved Daisy Duke. She brought all us men together😂

    • @shakeemdiggz2354
      @shakeemdiggz2354 2 года назад +1

      Are you black?

    • @hotrodeldorado811
      @hotrodeldorado811 2 года назад +22

      @@cameroncooper9501 amen to that, brother and that orange comet whooooo still a dream of mine to tear up Hazzard in that..... And fake out Roscoe and enos and speed off into the hills

    • @ztbi
      @ztbi 2 года назад

      The Confederate flag meant something to the Confederates who were trying to destroy America. It meant something to those southern white racist trying to keep black people enslaved. The Confederate Battle flag meant something to Republicans who waved the Confederate Battle flag inside of the Capitol building for the first time in American history during their January the 6th insurrection. I wish I knew how many black people were hung on trees while white people in their Sunday Best watched
      Laughing and smiling having a good time waving that meaningless Confederate flag. The Confederate Battle flag isn't meaningless to white people that's for sure. So carry on black man. You should get a Confederate flag to wave proudly.

  • @angieponders3844
    @angieponders3844 2 года назад +125

    Loved "The Dukes of Hazard" and so did the rest of my Black Family and that flag is a part of American History and I don't want it swept away!

    • @coldhardtruth233
      @coldhardtruth233 Год назад +9

      I grew up watching the Dukes with my black friend and his family and never thought about any rasim guess I learned well from them

    • @JohnSchneider-official1
      @JohnSchneider-official1 Год назад +2

      Hello dear fan

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      Yeah right. How come I don't believe for one second you are black ? I guess it's because my black friends unlike you, actually do know history

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 11 месяцев назад +7

      I was only watching an episode yesterday and there was a black guy that turns up and he's just part of the whole story not a stereotype not because the part of the story needed a black guy ,just because he is a normal person like anyone else .

    • @D4L_457
      @D4L_457 10 месяцев назад

      Yes we all were it was a very funny show it wasn't racist at all but they was undercover with it. We all thought we was passed it. But we didn't think he was racist. Stop taking up for people only people know who they are

  • @dduffy6870
    @dduffy6870 2 года назад +86

    Even the theme song "We're just the good ol' boys never meanin no harm" see no harm and 'fightin the system like two modern day robin hoods'

    • @seewhativescene
      @seewhativescene 9 месяцев назад +1

      "Rebels" in real life believed they were "good ol boys" with the rights to own human beings

    • @dduffy6870
      @dduffy6870 9 месяцев назад +5

      @seewhativescene Yeah, no, not what I meant. I meant real rebels like heroes, not slave owners.

    • @matthewlee9728
      @matthewlee9728 5 месяцев назад

      @@seewhativescene ruclips.net/video/fDkyL9c0QdY/видео.html

    • @jasongoodman3495
      @jasongoodman3495 2 месяца назад +1

      @@seewhativescene again the rebel flag that those Good Ol' Boys stand for are different than the confederates flag

    • @ChangeDaChannel
      @ChangeDaChannel 2 месяца назад

      @@seewhativescene In Real Life, you haven't a clue what you're talking about

  • @maryzabrisky6148
    @maryzabrisky6148 2 года назад +47

    Love memories of, The Dukes of Hazard, and the, General Lee! Yahoo! 🌟🇺🇲🌟🇺🇲🌟

  • @Youwoketube
    @Youwoketube 2 года назад +130

    Hey folks, it's a TV show. So chill. The General Lee and characters were supposed to be rebels like uh the rebels I guess in star wars that some of you freak out about

    • @oswaldfarkleton3839
      @oswaldfarkleton3839 2 года назад +11

      Exactly. They’re just a show and they themselves are not racist

    • @shakeemdiggz2354
      @shakeemdiggz2354 2 года назад +1

      How do you explain general Lee?

    • @sandymills7029
      @sandymills7029 2 года назад

      Good grief people it is not racist.General Lee was a car they were actors get over it

    • @johnprew866
      @johnprew866 2 года назад

      @Mark Armstrong Funny that no confederate solider was ever tried for treason. Jefferson Davis was held in jail for two years and actually wanted to be tried for treason. Weird that we'll know abolitionists bailed him out of jail. Hate when republicans claim Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation which was only an executive order which could be rescinded by the next president and it only applied to southern states. The 13th amendment ended slavery. General Grant held on to his slaves until the 13th was passed.

    • @yaboidustin2447
      @yaboidustin2447 2 года назад +2

      @@shakeemdiggz2354 they used different Confederate leaders for previous cars they had so it's tradition

  • @lentonjones3968
    @lentonjones3968 2 года назад +176

    I am black and I loved everything about the show. I didn't see racism, because it didn't exist on the show. I would proudly sport around in the General Lee and dare anyone to issue with it.

    • @RT69hemicharger
      @RT69hemicharger 2 года назад +2

      Sheriff Little was The Man! Sure miss those days!

    • @coldhardtruth233
      @coldhardtruth233 Год назад +6

      I grew up watching the Dukes with my black friend and his family never thought about any rasim guess they tough me well

    • @OrbitalTrails-x5s
      @OrbitalTrails-x5s 2 месяца назад +4

      I'm white and i agree

    • @jasonjohnson3037
      @jasonjohnson3037 2 месяца назад

      @@OrbitalTrails-x5s sorry to hear that

    • @skoolzone
      @skoolzone Месяц назад +1

      Imagine what confederate soldiers would think if all shades of Americans adopted the rebel flag as their own for their freedom. There will be enough corpses rolling in graves in Georgia to cause an earthquake😂😂😂😂😂. Battle flag of Virginia baby.

  • @plasticpeon
    @plasticpeon Год назад +34

    He looks great even after all these years. Loved show when I was kid.

  • @Solo-M-rf4em
    @Solo-M-rf4em 5 месяцев назад +3

    I grew up living in Asia watching this show. It was wholesome, clean and funny. It encompassed the lives of people just living their lives and having fun. Nothing more. Nothing less.

  • @dotwoos9781
    @dotwoos9781 Год назад +39

    The show was not about the flag it was about a family 😊😊 loved the show

  • @saleens330
    @saleens330 Год назад +38

    John is a great guy! Love the show growing up. Never once took it as racist…cause it’s not.

    • @williamoldaker5348
      @williamoldaker5348 Год назад +1

      It categorically is.

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад +1

      How many black people had roles on The Dukes Of Hazard ? Seems funny that their was virtually none when it was supposed to be set in Georgia.

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      The car was named after a guy who fought to keep slavery. It doesn't get much more racist than that. Get your head out of your butt

    • @michaelconstant5295
      @michaelconstant5295 11 месяцев назад +4

      Again you two are just looking for trouble and arguments. They had black people in their episodes all the time. I live right on the South Carolina/Georgia border. Ain’t nobody think it’s racist.

    • @EvanSechler2003
      @EvanSechler2003 2 месяца назад

      @@williamoldaker5348 not

  • @cypher01
    @cypher01 2 месяца назад +1

    I’m a Mexican American kid from Los Angeles. An 80s kid. One of my favorite shows. Love it. I’m also a big believer in equality. Against all that is hate. I see my childhood when I see that beautiful car. Peace and love to everyone.

  • @nuclearwinter4621
    @nuclearwinter4621 Год назад +53

    Loved the show when I was a kid. No one. No one thought any "Racist " anything. About the flag.

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Месяц назад +1

      Because people were ignorant. Like he said "when I was a kid". Then he grew up and should have learned what it stands for.

    • @Rouge_Viking
      @Rouge_Viking Месяц назад +1

      @@andreaskarlsson5251 it's not racist period

    • @DougZeller-l7d
      @DougZeller-l7d 18 дней назад

      @@andreaskarlsson5251 😂 😂

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 18 дней назад +1

      @@Rouge_Viking the confederate flag is racist. That like saying the swastiks isnt nazi 😂

    • @Rouge_Viking
      @Rouge_Viking 18 дней назад

      @andreaskarlsson5251 imagine being so poorly educated that you'll believe everything you hear on CNN. stay stupid

  • @Normal1855
    @Normal1855 2 года назад +164

    I love how some people find racism, where there is none. That makes them the racist.

    • @chuckmirror8849
      @chuckmirror8849 2 года назад +14

      Exactly brother

    • @paulstandaert5709
      @paulstandaert5709 2 года назад

      Fricken everything is perceived as racist now. Trip on the sidewalk and spill your grocery bag.. that's racist.

    • @Darkless4X
      @Darkless4X Год назад

      These self-claimed "Anti-Racists" are now the new racists. If they can't find any racism, then they create racism. These people disgust me.

    • @freespirit6253
      @freespirit6253 Год назад

      Ok then why does every racist group hold that flag so dearly. So your guilty by association. Like swastika. It's a ancient Asian symbol. But every racist sees it that way

    • @jays1850
      @jays1850 Год назад +7

      I agree 100%!!

  • @joansmith1195
    @joansmith1195 2 года назад +38

    It's was an entertaining show.

  • @sethwilson9465
    @sethwilson9465 2 года назад +28

    Thank you John for stating it sweeter than I could

  • @GJ-DT
    @GJ-DT Год назад +12

    Nothing like being called a racist from 1979.

  • @Zakktera
    @Zakktera Год назад +17

    The world could use an Uncle Jesse right now that's for damn sure...

    • @southsidetattoo
      @southsidetattoo Месяц назад

      Tired of little blue haired jack asses telling people we can't have something because it offends them. You didn't use the right words. At this stage in life I'm too old to care about stupidity. Jesse would say live and let live.

    • @cy318
      @cy318 Месяц назад

      @@Zakktera 🤣

    • @andreaskarlsson5251
      @andreaskarlsson5251 Месяц назад

      why?

  • @anthonylowder6687
    @anthonylowder6687 Год назад +7

    I’m from the South and I’m proud of the flag we Southerns hold so dear because as John said it’s about fighting the system and during the Civil War we were fighting against the damn Yankees not because as history has tried to say about keeping slavery active and that was never the issue ever(many blacks served on the Southern side willingly) but against the North trying to tell us how to live our lives as well as trying to control our businesses like cotton production.
    It is a total and complete myth and lie that the South was fighting to keep slavery we were fighting for our freedom and independence against people who tried to tell us what to do!!!!
    LONG LIVE THE SOUTH!!!!

    • @insaneyogurt4993
      @insaneyogurt4993 Месяц назад

      @@anthonylowder6687 rebel flag is different from confederate, confederate flag specifically represents the confederate party, which was specifically created to re-instate slavery. There are quotes of the creator/co-creator stating so, there is even a funny “Doobus Goobus” cartoon on it that shows said quote. You should check up on it

  • @ot5634
    @ot5634 Месяц назад +1

    As a black kid I loved to watch the Dukes of Hazard. I did not see it as a racist show. The Rebel flag did not bother me . Great show ! 👍🏾

  • @daleschultz2640
    @daleschultz2640 2 года назад +6

    John is a legend in his own right. I agree with John, it means "Fighting The System." I too have lived in the south & I have seen people still hanging on to the Civil War. The man who used to fill my propane tank was born & raised in the south & he said that people should move on & the past is the past.

  • @luvthecountry_creeker
    @luvthecountry_creeker 2 года назад +9

    Very well said, perfect answer. One of the best shows ever. I bought the whole set before I can't. Hopefully that never happens

  • @memoryroom6388
    @memoryroom6388 9 месяцев назад +3

    Good for the host to discuss this in a thoughtful way.

  • @BigRooster616
    @BigRooster616 Месяц назад +1

    AMEN Amen amen This show should still be on TV . Way better then the trash on TV today

  • @benglett4864
    @benglett4864 8 месяцев назад +12

    It's more LOVE in that flag than it will ever have HATE...

    • @joedivald1051
      @joedivald1051 17 дней назад

      It's a war flag. The Confederate flag is completely different. Go back to school.😊

    • @benglett4864
      @benglett4864 16 дней назад

      @@joedivald1051 actually.. the flag that most people fly is the Confederate Naval jacket. We had 3 different national flags. The battle flags that you just referred to as a war flag was a perfect square. That was mostly used by Virginia. Almost every states infantry had its own battle flag. Like my ancestors flag was white like the 2nd national flag with the battle flag in the corner and the stars was yellow not white and blue writing saying ALABAMA 18TH INFANTRY. You say I should go back to school but why would I do that? That's where all the lies are told against the brave Confederate soldiers

  • @georgeaddison5628
    @georgeaddison5628 2 года назад +30

    John is a great guy and American patriot he isnt a racist and neither is the Confederate flag you people made it racist.

    • @raisedphoenix
      @raisedphoenix 2 года назад

      It was made racist by the ones that made it, by the confederates that chose sedition over their rights to own slaves and by the KKK who fly it proudly today. If you're okay with being lumped in with that crowd then you are one too. Willfil ignorance of symbols is no excuse.

    • @georgeaddison5628
      @georgeaddison5628 2 года назад

      @@raisedphoenix you are an idiot MADE RACIST BY THE CONFEDERATES ,what a dumbass ,it was used by alot of people but it isnt Confederates .there was black Confederate soldiers that would disagree with your propaganda its whiteys fault. Stop living backwards if you are black you ain't oppressed and you have been free. You act like you are still a slave. Did you know the first slave ships were owned by blacks the globalist want us fighting each other so we dont wake up to them using all of us as slaves to our jobs now they want everyone dead but you are so racist you vant see it

    • @tmunch1968
      @tmunch1968 Год назад +3

      You people???

    • @emmameans9398
      @emmameans9398 9 месяцев назад

      The Confederate Flag, Robert E Lee’s Statue, and Jim Crow Laws were items of intimidation after the Emancipation Proclamation. White folks wanted uppity Black folks to know that they still had their “knees on their necks.”

  • @jedi49er1
    @jedi49er1 Месяц назад +1

    Listen to the lyrics of the theme song...
    "Fighting the system like a true modern day Robin Hood."

  • @theveteran2138
    @theveteran2138 2 года назад +119

    Leave it up to John to put a racist in his place! Love you John. Keep telling it like it is!

    • @JasonWalkerJamaica
      @JasonWalkerJamaica Год назад +4

      Wait, John is the one defending the racist flag, and the Black interviewer did not put John in his place.

    • @deantodd8103
      @deantodd8103 Год назад

      You two are talking past each other and are each making assumptions about one another and the situation. I don't believe that either John Schneider or the interviewer are racist. But they do have different subjective reactions to the rebel flag.

    • @JeremyCarlstedt
      @JeremyCarlstedt Год назад

      Looks like there just over 100 people that think the confederate flag isn't a racist symbol. Progress?

    • @MrPac1977
      @MrPac1977 Год назад

      Where was the racism in this clip? Are you senile?

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      Schneider has gone full Maga. He has been racist all along

  • @CathyWhetstine-sz2nu
    @CathyWhetstine-sz2nu 11 месяцев назад +2

    Well said! Never let people put words in your mouth! Loved the show! Your such a good person!

  • @mosmotorcyclejourney9067
    @mosmotorcyclejourney9067 2 года назад +5

    Yep I agree with you John. I'm a man of color and grew up to the Duke boys. Never gave it any thought till someone explained it too me as I got older. Still does not bother me. And I am still a big fan of the show and you sir. Let's change with the times and get out of the past.

  • @saradalton6807
    @saradalton6807 2 года назад +16

    Glad you set them straight, they want to label everything hatred or racist flag
    This flag means to me. My great great grandfather was a farmer out plowing when the blue soldier came on him shot him and killed him and threw his body In a cave his body still there. He wasn't even a soldier he was a pasture who was just working his land.
    It was during that war and so the flag let's us never forget him and wh we re he was in that time. It keeps his memories alive.

  • @brendaandrezeywski7577
    @brendaandrezeywski7577 Год назад +2

    Thanks, John. we love ya❣️ Love the show, all the cast members & General Lee 🚗 ❣️. if "they" don't like the show-- don't watch the repeats ❣️Show is in the past & now is now-- people need to STOP tearing this down & apart!!!

  • @clongoria31
    @clongoria31 Год назад +7

    Those were great memories we shared as a family. We never thought it was racist of any kind. The good guys were fighting the bad boys.

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      I enjoyed it too. Now I know that the flag on the roof and the name of the car celebrated racism. I've learned and I've grown up. The same can't be said for the arrogant narcissist has been John Schneider

    • @Grizzly_Adams.
      @Grizzly_Adams. 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@jupitermoongauge4055move beyond your hate. - a black man

    • @kermitthorson9719
      @kermitthorson9719 8 месяцев назад

      they were anti heroes. they still very much broke the laws and fought authority.

  • @scottmoody7839
    @scottmoody7839 Год назад +2

    Thank you John for putting this Sally man in his place. Great show and a huge part of my youth.

  • @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043
    @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043 2 года назад +82

    I grew up in the south. I never was pro rebel flag. It didn't affect me. In Tennessee we have a few blacks sporting the thing.
    .
    Does anyone actually believe that the OK sign is racist?
    .
    I just think there's a lot of people with way too much time on their hands that just want to look for something to be offended by.

    • @MrDewanchand
      @MrDewanchand 2 года назад +1

      They have a victim mentality. Their whole life they will be a victim. Suits me fine. They can burn in it.

    • @kevinjackson1893
      @kevinjackson1893 2 года назад +16

      You hit the nail on the head 👍

    • @rissu8573
      @rissu8573 2 года назад +11

      Same here except I am still growing up in Indiana and at the moment I am 14, the dukes of hazzard has been a great thing for me and my childhood so far

    • @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043
      @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043 2 года назад +1

      @@rissu8573
      Great show. It was never just about the flag. It was about rebelling against corrupt authority in Government.
      What does the rebel flag stand for? The message that Authoritarians don't want you to understand. Your racist if you support the right to bare arms.
      You're sexist, racist, homopobic transphobic and you will be doxed, possibly lose your job, get expelled from school or be violently attacked if you disagree with their BS. That is Authoritarian and believe it or not Fascistic so of course these people will hate any form of what? Any form of Rebellion against their BS, Globalist, You'll own nothing and be happy, agenda.
      That's a rant but that's why they hate the rebel flag.

    • @rissu8573
      @rissu8573 2 года назад +9

      @@justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043 I could not put it better, the flag shows just how much you are willing to rebel to keep your rights and your freedoms no matter what race you are…

  • @vivianfulton3871
    @vivianfulton3871 2 года назад +7

    The show “In The Heat Of The Night” has the confederate flag car tags on the police cars. There are pictures of Martin Luther King and General Lee hanging on the wall at the police station. The show demonstrates oppression and victories that overcome differences. The show demonstrates how people of different colors, backgrounds, and positions getting along and trying to make a better way. This show tackles so many different racial issues. I think this show is more racial than “The Dukes Of Hazzard”. The Dukes Of Hazzard was about fighting the system (local government) that is wrong for its community. Just good old country boys and girls making their way in life. Just good country living!! “In The Heat Of The Night” still airs on TV. “The Dukes Of Hazzard” needs to return to TV. -- Just Saying!! 😊🧡😊🧡

  • @patriciahill4492
    @patriciahill4492 2 года назад +4

    Whatever memories you have of the show does not make it racist nor was it ever meant to be racist. I believe it was meant to be a family fun show with cool fast cars and good looking people in the country. Flag or no flag, it was a good fun show. 😀

  • @SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman
    @SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman Год назад +1

    Proud that it was filmed in my hometown in Georgia & I was lucky enough to be in the 1st episode 1978

  • @88JR2Win
    @88JR2Win 2 года назад +25

    I am with you John. In my high school black and white carried the rebel flag. Ronnie Van Zant my all time favorite singer songwriter was certainly not racist. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kid Rock not racist. Because we love the flag does not mean we are racist.

  • @Manwholikestrains
    @Manwholikestrains Год назад +5

    I like john’s answer here because I see the flag in a very similar way

  • @Erik-qj1jd
    @Erik-qj1jd Год назад +5

    One of the greatest, most wholesome shows driven to the grave by social ignorance.

  • @adamsifford6228
    @adamsifford6228 Месяц назад +1

    It's not racist it's our pride. Fighting a bad system.

  • @crodrc51able
    @crodrc51able Год назад +4

    Mr. Schneider is an intelligent and logically thinking person. Long live the flag!
    👍💪🇺🇸🦅

  • @dranderson6071
    @dranderson6071 3 месяца назад +1

    Great show , great man. Cheers from Toronto

  • @christianguenther1276
    @christianguenther1276 2 года назад +57

    It's a battle flag, nothing more, flags have been used in battles since the time of ancient. Rome.

    • @conservativehippie9736
      @conservativehippie9736 2 года назад +3

      Thank you!👏❤️‍🔥

    • @ghostcityshelton9378
      @ghostcityshelton9378 2 года назад +2

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👌🖖🤘

    • @marywalker5348
      @marywalker5348 2 года назад

      The creator of the flag in his own words designed it for one reason and one reason only to represent white supremacy. How do y'all love this flag so much but have no idea what it was created to represent.

    • @christianguenther1276
      @christianguenther1276 2 года назад +4

      @@marywalker5348 It's still only a flag, what it represents can only hurt you, if u choose to let it.

    • @marywalker5348
      @marywalker5348 2 года назад +8

      @@christianguenther1276 tell the Jewish people the Nazi flag is "just a flag and it can only hurt you if you choose to let it". But I see it as a blessing in disguise because it shows me the character of the person who carries it. Just like anyone who carries a Nazi flag. And it's funny the same people who love this flag so much and proclaim it's "my heritage" are the same people who think factual history should be white washed and none of the horrific things done in this country and by this country should be taught in schools.
      And it seems the same people who think this is "just a flag' get upset when they see an ISIS flag. Both represent terrorists and the rebel flag is even worse because it represents treason to the country y'all claim to love so much. It's not a battle flag it's in the same category as the Nazi flag.

  • @DonnaCook-x6y
    @DonnaCook-x6y Год назад +2

    Amen John. Well said!

  • @larasikora5534
    @larasikora5534 2 года назад +14

    It's a rebel flag never ever thought of it any other way...

  • @Jay-fx4tx
    @Jay-fx4tx 3 месяца назад +1

    I grew up in Alabama in the 70s and 80s. The "Rebel flag" meant a huge middle finger to the federal government to us when I was growing up.
    It meant..."Rebellion".
    Just like John said.
    EVERYONE in my high school had one either flying on their truck, as a headliner, as a tag, as window tint, a stcker, or numerous other things.
    Yes, the black kids too.
    In fact our star running back (who was black) flew TWO
    on his old squarebody 4x4 pickup truck.
    It had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with "racism".

  • @mamadoll44
    @mamadoll44 2 года назад +4

    Most of us here in the South feel exactly the same way!

  • @rickwj324
    @rickwj324 Год назад +2

    I loved the show as a kid. I love John Schneider!

  • @andystagger2906
    @andystagger2906 2 года назад +21

    Well said John … I am Cuban/American and and I love the Rebel Flag and I love the Dukes of Hazard❤️.

  • @harolddorsey9179
    @harolddorsey9179 2 года назад +6

    If you knew your history you wouldn't have a problem with it.

  • @SamanthaNickole02
    @SamanthaNickole02 2 года назад +29

    Good for you, John!! Hooray for Dixie!!❤️

  • @loveeveryone2768
    @loveeveryone2768 Месяц назад +1

    He's just a good ol boy, never meaning no harm!

  • @cynthiapate9138
    @cynthiapate9138 Год назад +5

    It is a flag for rebels. Thank you John.

  • @jessecastillo1449
    @jessecastillo1449 8 дней назад +1

    Please don't mes up my childhood I personally don't care about no flag all I remember I coming home from school and being all excited to watch it.!!!

  • @billleary8315
    @billleary8315 2 года назад +5

    If this flag bothers you then dont look at it and dont watch the tv showsor movies.

  • @daviddauterman325
    @daviddauterman325 10 месяцев назад +1

    “Just the good old boys, never doing no harm”

  • @mrbillie6273
    @mrbillie6273 Год назад +3

    I agree with John

  • @jedi49er1
    @jedi49er1 Месяц назад +1

    "Makin their way...the only way they know how... that's just a little bit more than the law will allow."

  • @berniesully9173
    @berniesully9173 Год назад +5

    Love John and what he stands for.

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 Год назад

      All he stands for is the same as other rich white narcissists, he stands for himself and his arrogance to do what he wants even though it is offensive to other people for being symbolic of the slave owners fight to carry on practicing slavery

  • @JAMESHOUSTON-dn1im
    @JAMESHOUSTON-dn1im 26 дней назад +1

    Thank you for telling it like it is John Schneider

  • @astro-blaster4190
    @astro-blaster4190 Год назад +2

    Well said and well spoken. Thank you John/Bo.

  • @peterbilt9996
    @peterbilt9996 2 года назад +4

    John right it's just a rebel flag like I fly out because of our government.

  • @juliebehrnes3449
    @juliebehrnes3449 2 года назад +2

    Well said John.

  • @Redneckgirl74
    @Redneckgirl74 Год назад +5

    He's exactly right. It was more for states rights against an oppressive centralized government.

  • @maddogart5133
    @maddogart5133 Год назад +2

    Well said John 100%

  • @americancountryboy6404
    @americancountryboy6404 Год назад +4

    John 💯 right he didn't speak black or white he spoke for all of us

  • @AVdh6nr5mk1m
    @AVdh6nr5mk1m Месяц назад +1

    The show was just a good show and actually have some strong values. Something this modern generation always have problem with.

  • @Chicken_Wing91
    @Chicken_Wing91 2 года назад +4

    People who say it is a racist show never sat down and watched it period

  • @js6131979
    @js6131979 9 месяцев назад

    My favorite hazzard episodes are ONE ARMED BANDITS
    and GHOST OF GENERAL LEE!
    😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @williamschirmacher6526
    @williamschirmacher6526 Год назад +4

    I felt the flag. Rebel against the government

  • @enriquegilmour
    @enriquegilmour 8 месяцев назад

    I remember reading a magazine article about Mr. Schneider in the 80s where his agent or manager or someone close to him said he will be the biggest movie star since John Wayne. Well that obviously didn't happen but from everything I've seen he is a good guy. He has been living off that silly but wholesome TV show for 40 years. And good for him.

  • @paulnewkirk7351
    @paulnewkirk7351 2 года назад +81

    It's a bit of an embarrassment when grown men and women have such touchie feelings that a flag or statue or a plague can wreck their life to the point of distress and anger.

    • @sevenmiller9042
      @sevenmiller9042 2 года назад +3

      Great post

    • @steved2667
      @steved2667 2 года назад

      Hey clueless, the actual history escapes your cornbread ass, I see.

    • @outlawquelshingdixienothin8893
      @outlawquelshingdixienothin8893 2 года назад

      It's an operation. when everything the masses believe to be is a lie the elites work is complete. they want us to believe poor founding stock americans against immigrant yankee influence are the epitome of evil and slavers.

    • @Eckert123
      @Eckert123 2 года назад +4

      Some people get butt hurt, petty bs is not needed

    • @steferly
      @steferly 2 года назад +11

      It’s also funny that Americans fly the flag of a nation that got whooped by the USA. Maybe they should fly a white flag since the Condeferates did surrender unconditionally lmao.

  • @Scotty_Russell_Music
    @Scotty_Russell_Music Год назад +2

    Awesome show. Bo and Luke were childhood heros of mine. They fought the Law and helped out those in need.

  • @fieryphoenix586
    @fieryphoenix586 Год назад +4

    The same people who call the Rebel Flag a racist symbol likely wore Che Guevara shirts in school.

  • @wyattearl8385
    @wyattearl8385 Месяц назад

    The show was absolutely amazing and changed my life. I became a gear head because of it.

  • @martinlutherbling424
    @martinlutherbling424 2 года назад +16

    I was in 8th grade in 1978 in Buffalo, Ny. I had excellent teachers that taught the TRUTH and they taught it passionately. My history teacher said: one day they will TRY to tell you that the Civil war was fought over slavery. It's important to know that is NOT the truth. IF the civil war was fought over the issue of slavery then WHY did Lincoln wait about A YEAR and EIGHT MONTHS to declare the slaves free via the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION which he issued on January first 1863 ? The American Civil War was the result of senators and congressmen arguing over the TRUE right of the individual states to settle issues regarding commerce and local laws and regulations that the Federal government had no business regulating within each state. The division between the industrialized North(East) and the Southern states was so divisive that senators and congressmen we're assaulting each other ( physically fighting ) in the congressional chambers. The North wanted a powerful CENTRALIZED Federal style of government while the South wanted what the Constitution specified: a DECENTRALIZED government with power to the individual states to determine local laws, regulations and commerce. The North won out and today we have the all powerful, central "BIG BROTHER" that towers over all of us and shoves things down our throats like education policy ( common core ).

    • @martinlutherbling424
      @martinlutherbling424 2 года назад

      Another insight Mr. R.H. Miller had the vision to see was: " someday they will try to tell you that World War 2 was fought because of what Hitler was doing to the Jews. That World War 2 was fought to liberate the Jews. That's just NOT the truth."

    • @eddiealford3579
      @eddiealford3579 2 года назад +2

      I'm glad every1 has his or her own thoughts on the rebel r Confederate flag all u really need to do is go back n reread ur history books and u will know the real reason of the war and it kinda wasn't the flag

    • @robertodimarino9761
      @robertodimarino9761 Год назад +2

      Hello, I got a question to ask Sir.
      In your own opinion, the democratic party of the civil war period was the same of today or no?

    • @Grizzly_Adams.
      @Grizzly_Adams. 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@robertodimarino9761loaded question

    • @stefansnijders8943
      @stefansnijders8943 10 месяцев назад

      The "states' rights" the Confederacy seceded over was the right to own and trade slaves. The federal courts had already long established that the federal government was the ultimate lawmaking body of the land and that their rules superceded the states' rights. It was about slavery. And since they fired the first shots, I'm of the opinion that a bit of treason was also at the forefront of the federal government's minds.

  • @carlausoff6407
    @carlausoff6407 Месяц назад +1

    Actually there were numerous Confederate flags. The so called rebel flag is the most recognized because it was the battle flag. And not one of those flags had a thing to do with racism. It was states rights and the right of secession because of Federal overreach and being overtaxed.
    Kind of like what is going on right now.

  • @jayfabe
    @jayfabe 2 года назад +3

    The little flag of oppression stands against oppression?

    • @kermitthorson9719
      @kermitthorson9719 8 месяцев назад

      getting told they could no longer own humans meant they were oppressed.....?

    • @stormdowning3830
      @stormdowning3830 2 месяца назад

      @@kermitthorson9719 no, having your tiny sustenance farm with no slaves get burnt down by a federal government army full of fresh off the boat Irish immigrants, your mother, sisters, and daughters raped, and your brother, fathers, and sons killed, over what the then 1% decided in your state legislature means you were oppressed.

  • @edwardbright9434
    @edwardbright9434 3 месяца назад +1

    Leave it alone ok th flag is John u r right we here in Columbia SC love tht

  • @RT69hemicharger
    @RT69hemicharger 2 года назад +10

    I owned a General Lee in high school and I worked at a gas station in an ALL Black neighborhood (Eastover Md) in 1982. Countless black parents brought their little kids to the gas station to take pictures next to the car. It was soo cool to drive through South East D.C. and watch little kids run out of their homes and yell YEEHAW BO DUKE! They werent yelling Racist! - As it would bring today. Today SUCKS!!

    • @Renaultfan171
      @Renaultfan171 Год назад

      Those kids sound like they really enjoyed seeing that car

  • @OrcaBoat3
    @OrcaBoat3 4 месяца назад +1

    Great show.

  • @gregmock8527
    @gregmock8527 2 года назад +3

    Great answer John

  • @lisadeveney3021
    @lisadeveney3021 2 года назад +1

    I used it to Ban Rape with Musicians For The Law Enforcement Helped Rape And Joined Making Me A Rape Victim. I Love Your Opinion Of My Rebel Flag.

  • @CaptainFantastic222
    @CaptainFantastic222 Год назад +5

    So if the Nazi flag means something different to me it’s ok to fly it?

    • @kermitthorson9719
      @kermitthorson9719 8 месяцев назад +3

      according to john anything can mean anything. nothing means what i think it means because john thinks he has reality warping powers in order to just redefine what things are

  • @terrianderson4254
    @terrianderson4254 2 года назад +1

    I love the show I watch it all the time

  • @andrewhoag1255
    @andrewhoag1255 2 года назад +5

    Well spoken John……

  • @truspirit1925
    @truspirit1925 Год назад +2

    Right on John....your right

  • @stefanykope4966
    @stefanykope4966 2 года назад +2

    Well said

  • @joshuat5140
    @joshuat5140 Год назад +1

    I love his response. Because the truth is that people do tend to tell one what the flag means to them. Everyone has there own personal beliefs about things. And just because one likes the flag doesn't Mean there racist at all.

  • @bit7561
    @bit7561 Год назад +7

    The flag is fighting the system , it has nothing to do with the colors of our skin

  • @James-kv6kb
    @James-kv6kb 11 месяцев назад

    Massive support from Australia 🇦🇺 we all loved the show and it was not racist at all .all these people need to go and get a life and stop worrying about things like this when there are more important things to worry about in life. The southern attitude is much like Australia stick it up the system

  • @gamechanger1687
    @gamechanger1687 2 года назад +8

    General Lee had nothing to do with racism. Period.