I get that, I do. I don't support the Confederate flag in any way, shape, or form. The only point I want to make here is that, if a state institution flying the Confederate Flag is akin to honoring a past blighted with racism, the same goes for the United States flag. We could point to any number of instances of state-sponsored racism from the US government: African-Americans, Native Americans, Irish, Japanese, Middle Easterners...the list goes on. So by the logic of censoring the Confederate flag on the basis of a racist past, the same could go for the US flag.