Opinion of the Confederate Flag?

[Mechaman]

Again HF, but we shouldn't treat taking it down like it's the cure to cancer equivalent of treating racism.  That goes much back further than the existence of the Confederacy all the way to Chris Columbus.  Millions of black fathers are still in prison for daring to be caught with weed.  Millions of black children don't have those fathers because of said draconian drug laws.  Millions of black women are forced to raise their children by themselves while being strongly reliant on the government dole.

Seems to me we haven't even begun to treat the real symptoms.

Not that taking it down isn't the right thing, even if it was 150 years too late.  I just wonder how much longer it will take for white society to actually treat blacks like equals instead of feel good props.  Even the President, per that one speech no one shuts up about because of it's usage of a certain word, agrees with that.

I know how this forum likes to get off on recreational outrage, but let's be real here.  If this is the best that the Republican Party can offer non-whites, they don't deserve to win them.

So forgive me for not dancing a jig in celebration.