HOWEVER....
To associate something with people being brutalized 150 years ago would be much less intimidating than associating something with people being brutalized today.
It is just as logical to associate gold chains and baggy drawers with 13 month old babies being shot in the face, rapings, muggings, prison inmates, gangs, thugs, flash mobs, etc.....as it is to associate the stars and bars with slavery.
I think the point of the song is to say, I will let you live your culture if you let me live mine. I won't associate the way you dress with anyone other than you so don't do it to me. I will treat you as if you haven't raped anyone if you treat me as if I have never owned slaves despite our do-rags or Confederate flags.
The problem, as I see it, is that they aren’t objecting to the Confederate national flag (the Stars and Bars) but the Confederate Battle Flag, beneath which many men (including some blacks) fought and died gallantly, heroically, and tragically. If we can’t honor courage and conviction, even when it’s misplaced, there’s not much hope we will ever agree on anything.