It does not represent racism; it only reminds people of their heritage, mostly a good and great heritage, most of us should admire and adhere to, without racism or slave ownership, of course.
We need to enjoy our various heritages, be it the Confederate south, Uganda or Cairo. As Americans, we are to live as assimilated individualists, enjoying and worhsiping our best American heritage and way of life.
We are individualists here, as citizens, and race is irrelevant. Once we live in and deal with each other as developing individualists, any residual but always minor racism still at work in America will wither away. Where we see the individual, and not his racial, ethnic, national or religious group identity, then our natural bigotry becomes a motive that we are indifferent to.
This is the only effective way to end racism. To accuse all whites of racism is to fan the flames of dying American racism, stir up racial division, disunity and strife, sow hatred, grow group-living and arrest individual-living and the end to bigoted feelings towards anyone.
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