Regardless off its racism or not. That's an intense slippery slope and really, it's such an impedance on our first amendment rights. I CAN understand not flying the flag in government places but to say we should ban anything is inherently unconstitutional.

Despite that, I have a hard time understanding why people can't realize that what it means to some people, it doesn't mean to others. To so many southerners, it's a symbol of heritage and a symbol of their culture, not a symbol of enslaving blacks once again or even rising up against the north.

"But it was born from slavery!" one might say. Yeah? And so what? Our U.S. flag was born of resistance to Great Britain. But now it means something entirely different. They're one of our greatest allies. So clearly the U.S. flag has changed its representation. Why can't the Stars and Bars? And living in VA and talking to some people down here, they defend the flag because of their own reasons, not because they hate black people and want slaves again and hate "Yankees."

Come on, man. Nobody's fighting the Civil War anymore. That's just something people say when they don't know what the hell they're talking about.