Calling it an evil but still doing it and then postponing a solution until after he was dead doesn’t sound like the deeds of a principled man.
Banning the Confederate Flag has nothing to do with slavery. That flag represents Jim Crow more than it does slavery. It was a battle flag.
Banning the flag removes one of liberalism’s most popular strawmen.
Banning a flag - any flag - goes against everything this country was founded on.