Posted by: Angel | January 16, 2008

The man with the death wish.

I was at Wal-mart a few weeks ago (if I had a nickel for every story that began with those words…) and as I was parking my car in the space I glanced over to my left and spied this…

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Now, the picture quality is poor because I took this with my camera phone. What you are looking at is a dark, primer-grey, pick-up truck with two large Confederate flags attached to either side of the bed of the truck. There was a large steel guard-type thing across the whole front of the truck and I can only assume that there was probably some type of gun rack inside of the truck. But it’s just a guess.

You are probably thinking, “Yeah? So? I see trucks like this from time to time. No big deal.”

Well, there is some irony that I found quite humorous and yet incredibly uncomfortable.

What I did not mention is that the area of Chicago I live in is probably 60-70% Black. This particular Wal-Mart is in area that is predominately black as well.

My first thought when I saw this truck was “Oh muh gawd, somebody gonna die!!!” 

Not only did this person have large Confederate flags flying proudly from the atypical redneck vehicle perpetuating an ugly stereotype, but he must have balls the size of Texas as well.


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  1. Ok girl ~ where are you?

  2. He DOES have balls…I’ll give him that.

  3. While I don’t actually understand the significance, gotta love a guy with the balls the size of an elephant.

    Hope he got jumped and someone blogged it ;)

  4. I have seen an uprising of the confederate flag.
    Where I used to work there was a guy that had one on his truck.
    I asked HR if that was allowed.
    They talked to the guy who owned the truck and his response was “It doesn’t only symbolize racism..there’s other stuff too.”
    You could have knocked me over with a feather.

  5. We have an a-hole around where we used to live that drove a pickup truck plastered with confederate flags, klu klux klan stuff, etc.

    I always figured that he couldn’t possibly drive south of 8 mile … unless he had a death wish.

  6. Ohh, yes. He is very brave.

    This post made me laugh because it reminded me when we went on our honeymoon up in Georgia. My husband is Spanish (short, dark hair, everything), and the sight of seeing those Confederate flags hanging from.every.freakin.house kinda made him pretty nervous.

  7. Yep – some serious balls or very small brain!

  8. If I had a nickel for every confederate flag bumper sticker I have seen in North Carolina, I’d be a rich man. Sad, but true.


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