By Avery Stone
Bubba Watson’s (click here) General Lee (also known as the 1969 Dodge Charger driven by the Duke brothers in the 1980s TV show The Dukes of Hazzard) will no longer have a Confederate flag on top.
On Thursday, the two-time Masters champion tweeted his decision to paint over it with the American flag....
I listened to the arguments about the confederate flag being a symbol of southern pride. It isn't valid anymore. The symbol has been adopted by violent movements of racism. It can't remain.
July 4, 2014
Haley made the comments (click here) in an interview with the TODAY show, explaining that she hopes her calls to remove the flag will be just the first step in helping her state and the country strengthen race relations.
The governor called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds on June 22, a few days after the murder of nine people at Emanuel AME, in Charleston, S.C. Now, she says she understands there may be pushback to taking the flag down.
On Monday, South Carolina lawmakers will begin debating whether to remove the flag from Statehouse grounds, according to the TODAY show."I don't think this is going to be easy," Haley told TODAY. "I don't think that it's going to be painless. But, I do think that it will be respectful and that it will move swiftly."
