the dukes and the klan - the conspiracy revealed

i have a theory that 'the dukes of hazzard', though i am a huge fan of the show, was actually a creation of and by the ku klux klan ... a propaganda tool to get into the heads of america's television viewing audience, a highly-rated show hiding an agenda of race hating, high speed runs from the law and an effort to secure short-shorts in the minds of 'Merica for time unending.

without further delay of 'yeeeeeehaaaaaaw!', away we go ... some may be obvious, others not so.

1. the general lee - the car was the star of the show. tom wopat can bitch and moan all he wants about john schneider but that damned car drew the crowd, still does at those annual dukes rallies held in north carolina or tennessee or whatever cracka state hosting it these days. the car was such a star it spawned a whole subculture of rednecks painting their pickup, pintos, chevettes and k-cars in the flame orange regaling.

now, we all know, general robert e. lee was the commanding general of the army of virginia, the confederate states of america's fighting force. he is a legend, not withstanding that status. he was a military genius offered the command of the union army by president lincoln, but declined based on his loyalty to his state. anyways, naming a car general lee certainly a nod to him. the confederate battle flag emblazoned on top, with no shame in it, or any shame witnessed by the producers. of course the overtness of such a name and the display of the flag is a sign of agenda, then there is the color orange, a nod at the color of flames consuming a cross erected in a yard. the number on the side of the car, 01, a nod at the klan's thought of racial supremacy and 'no. 1' status in the array of human racial existence.

and of course, the general was always jumping the biggest shit on the planet, the widest 'cricks', the tallest barns and never being defeated ... the south shall rise again, over a three-tiered tabaccy barn apparently.

2. the use of the duke family name - at the time of the creation of the show, david duke - that old faithful louisiana bigot - was grand dragon of the ku klux klan. it does not take a member of the southern poverty law center or the fbi to figure that one out.

3. boss hogg and the color white - he dressed in white, he drove a white cadillac, he ate raw friggin' liver. uncle jesse (jesse james was a klansman and a confederate guerilla raider throughout missouri) drove a white pickup truck. daisy duke drove a white jeep. and all of this white in a county without paved roads, dust flying behind cars without anything ever getting dirty ... what's that all about?

4. hazzard - well, there is a couple of reaches here, but maybe a hazard in messing with the dukes? such as 'you in for a world of hazards if you mess with david duke and his klan!' coincedentially there is a city in kentucky called hazard, which is known among the appalachian people for its heavy klan ties ... i have talked with people in that part of the state who still witness crosses burning on a ridgeline at night.

5. the representation of minorities in the show - there was only one recurring black character on the show, the sheriff of chickasaw county. he was always, always out to catch the duke boys crossing over the county line. since they were on probation for moonshining (white lightnin'), they were supposedly on probationary condition that disallowed their leaving hazzard county. he was a hard core cop, but a bit of a bumbling type. he was always made a fool by the dukes. anytime a minority character, most often black, appeared on the show he was always a criminal, crook or swindler and always had a firearm. try to nail down an episode where bo or luke had a gun ... i can think of only a couple and that is only because they picked it up off the ground. uncle jesse, however, he liked the shottie gat from time to time.

6. flash the beagle - while sheriff roscoe p. coltrane's dog was not a bloodhound but a bassett, this was a nod to the blooder. bloodhounds were the canine of choice for the slave trackers of the old south. any dog in these lines make great tracking dogs and can pick any scent trail, just about anywhere.

7. dynamite - the dukes were always using dynamite on the end of a friggin' arrow to cause destruction and distraction. anyone remember birmingham and 16th street baptist ... that church was bombed in, what, 1963 with, what, dynamite. well, it wasn't on an arrow, but dynamite was a popular tool of the klan back in those dark days.

8. night in hazzard - it seemed to always be daylight in hazzard, nightime never came. the dukes had no need for anything resembling darkness in their lives.

now, maybe some of this is a stretch, but most seems just a bit too similar for my tastes. think on it, i am sure you all will come up with connections of your own.