Are you ignorant of your ignorance?

@SatanBurger No, but it does mean they're tone-deaf, insensitive and ignorant. Oh, and complicit in racist ideology, yes.

@Graylight The Guardian article had a black woman and a white woman as friends, they didn't think of race until the whole confederate thing turned into a whole thing. You say it's insensitive but to people it's part of their history whether you like it or not.

It's clear that human beings fail to consider history from any other perspective other than their narrative and I'm not talking about racism.

@SatanBurger Yes, they did think about race. "Colorblind " is a dangerous cultural myth. They thought about it...and they figured it didn't factor in for them. That's two people. We're discussing a nation.

Don't pull the cultural heritage BS. It's a played-out hand. It well may be part of peoples' heritage, but that does nothing to make it right or wrong. Nazism is a part of German heritage, but at every possible turn the country denounces it. Slavery is part of a cultural heritage, but you don't see anyone without a shaved head or white hood celebrating it in the streets or with bumper stickers.

The confederate flag is a symbol of ignorance, oppression, violence and the low road of America history. Why is it people can see clearly the meaning of other symbols but have to cling incoherently to their own?