Walmart to remove all Confederate Flag items; Do you think their response went overboard?

I'm not sure it's an overreaction by the media. This fight has been brewing for decades. It just took something like this to reignite it.

No patriot should even DREAM of flying it anyway. I'm descended from a very prominent Confederate figure. I wouldn't dream of tossing on his uniform and waving that flag around. It's my heritage, but my identity is as an American. History has decided the Confederates were traitors on the wrong side of a horrific issue. At some point, we have to decide this thing belongs in the past.

and sometimes, you have to decide what American stands for, my friend...because you say no patriot should "DREAM" of flying it doesn't change the fact that you are wrong about what it stood for, back then...and he said it is an over reaction TO the media, so 1) the contention to which you make your argument is inherently flawed & 2) the "fight" has been manipulated by the media. Systematically, hollywood and conglomerates have instituted the rebel flag in every racially hateful depiction of history that it can, whether it existed or not, to engrain this thought that the rebel flag = the confederate battle flag. That is simply untrue. even if it were, while slavery was a major contention and should be viewed as a RIDICULOUSLY DISPARATE embarrasment to our ancestors who owned slaves (if they did at all...the majority of Americans descend from immigrants who came to ellis island in the great immigration), the confederacy didn't fight, necessarily, to keep slaves. While the civil war was historically conveyed to be about slavery, actual documentation on the reason and sanity of it prove to be more economic in nature, as a by-product of slavery. but when you control the publishing of material and its distribution, its easy to fool the population into thinking that the rebel flag 1) equaled the confederate battle flag (which it wasn't) and 2) that it was created out of hatred for an entire race of people and flown as representation of that hate. Nothing is mutually exclusive, brother, and that means that by demanding we censor it, we become partisan to censorship...based on perception of a symology that, all my known life, i have only ever known a handful of people who even consider race when flying that flag...