Removing the Confederate Flag Will Not End Racism - It Will End Free Speech

Some nut commits a heinous racial crime, and all of the sudden a historic (albeit controversial) symbol—the Confederate Flag—has got to go, pronto. And somehow, that’s going to rid the world of evil like that committed by Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.

Whether it’s South Carolina’s plan to remove the flag from the state capitol building; Bubba Watson’s decision to remove it from the famed “Dukes of Hazzard” car “The General Lee”; or suspending a volunteer firefighter for“flying a Confederate flag from an engine during a holiday parade” we’re obsessed with all things peripheral.

You see, it’s not the flag that matters. And taking it down isn’t going to fix the hearts and minds of people like Dylann Roof, or any other violent criminal.

Yet, in the light of a tragedy in Charleston, suddenly the Confederate Flag is the core problem. And to avoid social shunning (as is the case with Bubba Watson), people who previously may not have even cared (where was the sobbing South Carolina state representative before the tragic Charleston shooting?) now chime in vociferously.  More

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