I agree wholeheartedly.
That is why I believe that military symbols such as the Confederate Battle Flag should be vigorously defended against any political misuse by race baiters and hate mongers of either color.
A loathsome misuse of the Confederate Battle Flag can be found here: Ku Klux Klan...The flag of the South is now the flag of World Wide White unity!
The use of the Confederate Battle Flag by hate groups and racist politicians, be they white or black, is a slap in the face to the valient men who died under that banner and should be condemned as strenuously as the misuse of Old Glory by those same hate groups.
Once we allow the hate mongers to define the symbolism of our History, they win.