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.

Such grace answering this question John love you!

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

John tells it like it is !

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

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

😂😂😂 We need better schools and education system

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!

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

Nothing like being called a racist from 1979.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

Thank you John for stating it sweeter than I could

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!!!

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

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!! 😊🧡😊🧡

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's was an entertaining show.

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

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

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

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

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!!!!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a flag for rebels. Thank you John.

I felt the flag. Rebel against the government

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!!!

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

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.

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

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

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. 😀

I still pump Waylon Jennins in my 2017 Dodge Challenger. That show will always be my child hood show❤️💯

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.

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.

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

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

Love John and what he stands for.

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

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.

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.

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

Amen John. Well said!

Right on John....your right

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!!

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

Well said John.

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

Great answer John

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

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

Great show , great man. Cheers from Toronto

The little flag of oppression stands against oppression?

Well said

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

Well said John 100%

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

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 ).

fight that DAMN system

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.

I agree with John

General Lee had nothing to do with racism. Period.

Yes! What I just said on my channel in my latest freedom fire!💯 Keep up the great work! 👍👍❤

Well spoken John……

John Schneider: "I want to own Blacks." Thank you for admitting it Rascist.

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.

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

Way to go John your exactly right, glad you stood up for your beliefs. I hate when liberals try to force there agendas on us. They have the right to believe what ever they want and so do I. 🙏😎☮️✝️

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.

Back in those days we knew and today we choose to use our voice to support good over evil.

Great show.

The black guy needs to educate himself and the flag has nothing to do with slavery.

Individuals aren't able to change the meaning of symbols that have been defined by history. When I hang a Marshall University flag outside my house, to me, The Herd might represent the best school and team in the country, but to the outside world, they represent a mid major school, that would never beat the Ohio State's of the world I can't change that meaning for everyone who drives by my house because it has been established for the whole world to see. If a Confederate flag stands for generic rebellion or southern pride to you, your personal interpretation forfeits any meaning once you display it publicly, as its meaning takes on the meaning it earned when a failed regime killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in an attempt to destroy America and keep black people enslaved forever.

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.

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

As an Afro-American used to watch the show as a kid and I loved the show & I agree with John that the show was about fighting the system & the show is not racist because I'd seen actors of all races come on the show, plus I love Daisy Duke she bought all men to the yard.

It's called brain washing is why you cant get over that flag.

The way he says it, it's almost like they were fighitng it like a true modern day Robin Hood. Crazy.

The flag would always reminds me of "The Dukes." No matter what others thinks.

*TRUTH BOMB* 💣