OK...I found a solution for Southerners who want to Honor Southern Heritage

[Taverner]

Here - a new flag for the south. It honors what is probably the absolute greatest Southern gift to the world: Blues.

It honors such great Southerners as Elvis Presley, Booker T, Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker.

And it has no racist baggage :)

[SteppingRazor]

1. Also, National guitars sound fucking awesome.

:)

[Aristus]

2. Forget it. If it didn't fly over all the Civil War battles they lost, they're not interested.

I'm just sayin'...

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Agreed. The Confederate Battle Flag or nothing.

Chickenhawks all.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

4. As a proud Southerner,

I like it. :D :hi:

[Taverner]

7. And (I think) the dobro is a southern invention to boot

And nothing sounds better than a dobro wailin'

[krispos42]

5. The guitars need to be crossed...

And then we have to get busy photoshopping!!!


"It's not a cross! It's a lower case 't'! A lower-case 't' for 'tolerance!'"

[Shell Beau]

6. Ummmm B. B. King! Duh!

:P

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Yeah, give them "all Black" reasons to be proud of the south!

:rofl: :toast:

[Taverner]

10. Now now there were many white Southern Musicians

Skynard for one - who would be NOWHERE without the blues and Curtis Lowe and his Dobro!

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. I don't care for Skynard, but I do love the original blues and jazz.

To each their own :toast:

[Taverner]

12. Yup

And I think Hank Williams Sr used a Dobro...

Ya know...I wonder if anyone ever tried to do jazz with a Dobro - along the lines of Bela Fleck....

[BOSSHOG]

9. And today is Fats Domino's 80th birthday

Not a guitar player but certainly a proud music maker of the South.

To quote Steve Martin as Navin Johnson in the Jerk: "Why does that music (blues) always make me wanna cry?"

[Bake]

13. It's gotta be either a National or a Dobro

No other reso-guit will do.

Bake

[IzaSparrow]

14. Why's it gotta be black...

the neck!?! That's all I'm saying :shrug:

[mondo joe]

15. I'd like a Grits flag. Or a Tennessee Williams flag.

[conscious evolution]

16. Lets steal this one

from the klux heads and rednecks. http://images.google.com/images?q=rebel+flag&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

After all,it was originally a battle flag for a group of rebels.

I know it may sound like a batshit crazy idea but can y'all imagine how hard the rednecks would freak if minorities all over the country started flying this flag as a symbol of revolt against the status quo?

[Taverner]

17. Because that flag represents racism, bigotry and slavery

Silly rabbit!

The Dobro only represents beautiful blues on a slide - something only the meanest folk would detest...

[conscious evolution]

18. And the swastika stood for

good until Hitler changed what it stood for.
Why can't we do the same with the rebel flag.Change the ideals it represents.

Like I say,a crazy idea thats been bouncing around in my head for a while.The thing is,every time I tell it to people,after they get over the initial revulsion to the idea they start seeing how it might work.

[Taverner]

19. Well the Swastika has origins from Hinduism

And it meant Peace

The Confederate Flag never meant anything other than Racism

[conscious evolution]

20. Like I say

it stood for peace or good till hitler got hold of it.
Maybe we could do the same with the rebel flag.Change what it stands for.

I mentioned in my previous post how people come around to the idea.
Not exactly true.
Rednecks absolutely freak out over the idea when I bring it up with them.And anything that pisses of rednecks is a good thing in my book.

[Taverner]

21. Well I think it's beyond salvage

Better to use the Dobro as a reflection of Southern Identity (It includes both black and white southerners, which the CSA flag doesn't)

But anything that pisses off rednecks can be fun

[conscious evolution]

23. It would definitly

be an uphill battle.

Then again,one hip-hop artist could change things over night.

[Yukari Yakumo]

25. Actually, the swastika is like the pentagram

The normal swastika represents good in some faiths.
Inverted, it becomes the Nazi symbol.

Sort of like the pentagram.
The normal pentagram is a common symbol in the wiccan faith.
Inverted, it becomes a Satanic symbol.

[China_cat]

22. The true southern heritage flag

should be okra on a field of grits, sugar cane bar with collard greens and fatback

[Taverner]

24. AND A DOBRO!!!

They invented it

I love it

And only the truly gifted can play it!