I personally hate seing the confederate flag being flown or on cars or anything else. It serves as a reminder of those things from the past. How many times did I have to see the KKK flying the flag high during a lynching or beating or whatever? It has come to unfortunately symbolize hatred and this didn't happen over night.
I think unless some of you had an opportunity to experience any of this, it will be hard for you to understand. To have parents, grand-parents, great grand-parents discriminated against simply for the color of their skin. Unable to get jobs to support their families although they were more than qualified for the position. You couldn't afford to send your children to college or the colleges of choice simply because they didn't accept black students. Don't you think that may have had some kind ripple effect? Things have certainly gotten better in 2003, no doubt but to say it's racist and serves only one group of people is far off base. Whether it's still needed today is debatable but there still is a large disparity in corporate America when it comes to minorities. Even more so in the upper ranks.
We as blacks didn't have an identity when it came to this country. We were a lower class thought of as dumb and ignorant. You turn on the radio and TV and our voices and faces weren't there. We had no one to look up to, no role models, etc. That's one of the reasons why there is a BET. I could go on and on, but I think unless you felt it, have been through it or had loved ones struggle with it, it'll be hard for you to understand.
