B4 I get to some serious pig stickin and rat killin here, need to wish both Deputy Enos and today our President and leader Crazy Cooter, Happy Birthday. Makes ya’ll there Cooter just a tad over 53 don’t it. Amazing how we both look alike huh?
Handsome as wee are don’t ya’ll know. Miss Alma might not be able to tell us apart.
Okay then, ya’ll saw something yesterday and I hope many in the media saw it as well. NBC sure as hell did as well as the AP.
When Warner Brothers told those carving out toys of our beloved General , and all that there could be no more Confederate flags on the roof. Apparently that Rebel Flag offends some folks. I have something on that in a few lines down so hold on.
Thing is ya’ll saw that once Ms. Alma put the word out, the Hazzard Nation went into Overdrive. We got online and hammered Warner Brothers, and the media hard. Don’t yet know the outcome, but I’d sure as hell wouldn’t want to be the guy at the WB doing damage control, more over relinquishing that branding order. Hell he’d be better off, going over to Chickasaw County with Sheriff Little and having some watermelon wine.
It showed that when the Hazzard Nation gets a burr under its saddle heads roll. So here’s my pitch.
I hope that Alma, Ben and Corey read this.
Most of ya’ll know how I feel about not only the series of the Dukes, but all the cast and crew members. The fact that I even got a green light to go public with the real Hazzard County Garage and all back in 1982 is still a wonder. The fact that most of that cast including series creator and consultant Gy Waldron showed up at Moms funeral was monumental. The love I feel for the show, its inspirational messages everything goes beyond just a casual affection or being a fan. Every day I wake up and live life as if I truly were in Hazzard. Like I said Hazzard is not a place on Earth , but a place in the heart.
I have tried many times to get to DukesFest or Home Coming but since Mom and dad died , mostly Mom, the money to do so has been limited. But I spend a bunch of MY money keeping the Hazzard Knytes together, the Hazzard Garage/Hazzard County Choppers growing and going.
Then there is the situation of finding my own southern ancestral roots. It was the Dukes-of-Hazzard, in an episode where all went back in time to western cowboy days to find a document to save the farm. I started looking into my own roots or family tree. I found my connection to things in Alabama and Georgia. My dad just b4 he died got me to see my kin folks in both places. After that in 1978 and following I went down south to see my Uncles in both Alabama and Georgia, one who lives just a spit a way from where the original series or beginning of the original series was filmed.
The knowledge learned goes deep.
There are things that the Yankee and mainstream schools do not teach, about the great war tween the states, the atrocities to our southern people, the war and just plain crimes committed against our southern people, the list goes on, but how do we educate the upcoming people?
We get things both online as well as printed. We get educational programs like books ;like Magnolias and Cornbread into our schools. We as members of the Hazzard Knytes take time to give lectures. The Hazzard Nation can help here.
I know money ain’t rolling out of all’s jeans, but if just half of everybody that I saw online defending the flag on the General, would cough up $10.00 and send it into the Hazzard Knytes, we could buy the air time on local TV, Mainstream newspapers etc, plus buy the books and teaching materials to take into northern Yankee schools, so we could teach our kids, that things like our rebel flag of Dixie is not one of hate, but of honor and courage, that those stars and bars are not a symbol of racism, but of love and respect of a nation.
So tell ya’ll what,
How about ya’ll taking $10.00 put it in a money order, send it to Hazzard County Choppers, 703 East Main Burley Idaho 83318. and we’ll begin an educational project unlike ya’ll ain’t never seen.
Next time hereon,
The Hazzard Nationals/DukesFest West
L8R Ya’ll
Quote of the Day:
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
--Robert Green Ingersoll
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