The confederate flag on the dukes of hazzard car will be painted over

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You can't erase history, but maybe you can paint it over? Golf champ Bubba Watson announced on Thursday that he'll swap the Confederate flag atop his General Lee, the iconic car


from the TV show _Dukes of Hazzard_, for an American one. In 2012, he purchased the car used in the first episode of the TV show. Watson's tweet comes on the heels of TV Land's


announcement that it would stop airing _Dukes of Hazzard_ reruns because of the prominence of the flag in the show. After the murders at Emmanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina —


allegedly by Dylann Roof, who has a history of white supremacy — the Confederate flag has been increasingly shunned. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the


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