I wasn't expressing an opinion as such. Just throwing something in that I happened to watch that day. Here was a black American guy at a concert amongst crowds many of whom were sporting a confederate flag and conceding to the camera that most of them were very nice people. I don't have enough knowledge, in fact probably have no knowledge, as to whether all of these people were racist or not or do some see the flag as just an identity thing?

What I do know though is that in parts of the UK the Union Flag is sported by people who are viewed by their neghbours as anti-Catholic and the flag is in some parts of the UK is to some degree or other seen as a sectarian symbol. For instance even at the time of the royal wedding Mcvities biscuit factory in Scotland banned anyone from displaying the flag at least partly because it was viewed as potentially sectarian. Yet most people in the UK would not recognise or perhaps even understand that association and when flying a Union Flag would absolutely deny that they were sectarian .

So I agree with the known association it is wrong to shove symbols into other people's faces but at the same time is it right to strip people of symbols that their culture and community identifies with? Maybe it is in this case! I really don't know coming from over here..