Another terrible race motivated attack.

[Sarmatian]

Yeah, I'm not sure how the Stars and Stripes holds up under the same standard. Certainly ethnic cleansing, and arguably all out genocide, is on the same level as slavery or worse. Nothing about the current rush to purge all symbols of the Old South stands up to even basic intellectual scrutiny... It's just reactionary populism. It's never enough to just say 'what a terrible tragedy, I'm glad all efforts were made to capture the killer'. The usual suspects always use these isolated, statistically insignificant incidents to push agendas that are at best only tangentially related. What about the cross... the star and crescent? Is there any symbol in widespread use that doesn't offend someone?

Cry me a river. That flag is:

1) symbol of slavery
2) symbol of armed rebellion against USA

If number 1 is debatable (in my opinion it isn't, no amount of dressing up can make it), number 2 point should be enough to ban it for forever and ever.