The Memphis 10: No more passes for the General Lee, and shots all around
One of the 1969 Dodge Chargers driven in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" sits in the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois, on June 26, 2015. The Confederate battle flag is painted on the car's roof. (AP file)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
The iconography atop the General Lee is the battle flag of a slavery republic. Violence in the name of white supremacy is its inherent, explicit meaning.
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