There was an event scheduled to honor actor Burt Reynolds and part of it was to have his “bandit car” performa jump on a street in Detroit.
So why would Detroit refuse to issue the permit? Was it going to be an unsafe jump? Was it going to tie up traffic to bad? Was there concern the organizers couldn’t get insurance?
Nope, nope, and nope.
Their concern?
During a city council meeting last week, Councilman Scott Benson said the Bandit car “still proudly flies a Confederate flag, which is a symbol of oppression, slavery, as well as home-bred American terrorism.”
The council member is an idiot but there is still hope:
Benson said because a waiver was placed on the City Council’s vote, it could not be reconsidered for another vote. Eight city council members either voted against or expressed their disapproval for the stunt jump request. Councilman Gabe Leland was absent.
But I doubt it. Liberal town so I’m sure the liberal city council members will double down on stupid over a license plate from a 1977 movie that isn’t even on the car in question.
I disagree that the council should vote against an event just becuase they are concerned the poor snowflakes of Detriot might have their feelgoods hurt by seeing an old Georgia state flag.
Detroit is 82% Black. Why should they have to put up with Confederate nonsense? Good for them. I’m sure Charlottesville or some other southern city would be more than happy to host this event.
It banned a public jump of a car in conjuction with an event. Not becuase the jump wouldn’t be safe. Not because it would shut down traffic. Not for any reason other than a confederate flag license plate on a car.
Why try and extrapolate the single issuance of a permit into a “ban”; you do no service to your argument by doing that.
It appears that the City is upset about a prior permit they issued for a similar event and circumstance that was not adhered to. I wonder if similar parties are involved?
Whites are ever so slightly less likely than average to believe that political correctness is a problem in the country: 79 percent of them share this sentiment. Instead, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness. As one 40-year-old American Indian in Oklahoma said in his focus group, according to the report:
It seems like everyday you wake up something has changed … Do you say Jew? Or Jewish? Is it a black guy? African-American? … You are on your toes because you never know what to say. So political correctness in that sense is scary.
So as we can see it’s the 21% fringe white liberals that’s driving this “Everything’s Offensive” culture. No one would have cared about Burt Reynolds car in Detroit 10 years ago.
