His daughter has had a podcast for a couple of years now, and on one episode, she talked about it. He’d put a bumper sticker on his car that had the flag and “Southern by the grace of God” on it. When a black friend told him she found the flag offensive, he cut that part of the bumper sticker off. The daughter said he didn’t want to offend anyone.
And this isn’t a new stand for Jr. He wrote about his position to the flag in his autobiography 13 years ago.
Jr. learned from his dad that his name is worth more than every race he’ll ever run.
I’m from the same place as Jr., and we’re close to the same age. I never spent time displaying the confederate flag because I had a lot of black friends.
I really don’t care except somebody’s telling me I can’t display it. That’s what’s making me angry. It’s nobody else’s business.