Take down confederate flag, and change street names in public places?

I disagree. Both Obama and Hilary should be saddened by this choice in their past. Everyone makes mistakes, and it is one that won't be repeated much longer.

 

So everyone has done it and everybody is saddened. It's a wash.

 

Not just South Carolina: Countless Confederate tributes across U.S.



http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/s-c-confederate-symbols-across-nation/index.html

 

Change the names of these streets because of what they represent:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Martin+Luther+King+Boulevard

TOP DEFINITION

Martin Luther King Boulevard
A street in every major American city, commonly inhabited with large amounts of unemployed African Americans. In most cities among the top ten streets involved in gang shootings, drug busts, car thefts, and older white women and blacks of all ages, "gettin' dey neclaces jacked". The average age for school dropouts on MLK boulevard is approximately 13 years of age, and the average income of the inhabitants here varies greatly depending on when Miguel last was able to supply DuQuaan with the "goods." Many fried chicken restaurants are typically located here, the significance of which being the food's strong appeal to the native population.

 

amazing...your all idiots. that speech by JFK..no rational comment? i'm about done here, hard to keep on keeping on

 

What circumstance changed? Does the flag stand for something else now that it didn't 6 years ago?

 

Watch this and then tell me what side of the argument you're on. If we are free to burn our American flag in protest, then perhaps those opposed to the Confederate flag should just burn it. You can protest, you can argue, you can burn it of you like. What you shouldn't be able to do is tell someone they can't show it just because it offends you, regardless of what you think it represents. Like the man says in the video, "America is advanced citizenship" and most of America just ain't ready for it. Sadly, neither are our leaders.

 

And President Shepherd in that movie was a Democrat.

 

So what if enough people wanted the Iranian flag to replace the Confederate flag outside government buildings? Remember, the Confederacy was an enemy of the Union whose values were at cross-purposes, and its flag symbolized those conflicting values.

 

You're going to have to accept the vagaries of public opinion, like it or not, for it to make sense. Theory alone won't do.