Honestly, the Confederate Battle Flag is a piece of American history that we probably shouldn't do away with. Though many fringe groups have taken the flag and used it for their own purposes, that doesn't mean that the flag itself is to blame. The hate groups are going to rally behind whatever they want. Banning the flag isn't necessarily opposing them. Rather it's allowing them exclusive rights to it. Now all the mainstream people who might have had a different interpretation of the flag have to give it up to those who want to use it to commit hate crimes.

Ultimately, we're allowing a historical symbol of what was once Southern pride (with all the good and the bad connotations to it) to be tarnished and abandoned to degenerates.