You nailed it stamper. What a bunch of gutless cowards we have in office. They have absolutely nothing better to do than to appease appease appease.
IIRC Lincoln had the band play “Dixie” at the end of the war. He was all about reconciliation.
Today we’re all about continuing the narrative about black oppression —because it’s the only identity that African-Americans can cling to — they were ‘oppressed’.
There is nothing else that binds them together; and if they lose that, they wouldn’t know who they are...
So we have first the mania about the “N” word; then the “noose” mania; and now the “Confederate flag” mania.
All to emphasize the narrative.
And none of that has actually bettered the condition of black people at all; it has only permitted our culture to perpetuate a myth.