Is Banning the Confederate Flag Progress?

Terrorist Dylan Roof

The insidious and prejudice terrorist, Dylan Roof, with  supreme hatred for African-Americans, opens fires in a church filled with the aforementioned race, killing nine, and America decides it's time to ban Confederate flags. 

Yes, it's 2015 and America is  now  deciding that Confederate flags aren't a good idea -- at the expense of nine African-American lives, of course.

Why is this supposedly significant? The Confederate flag is supposed to be a symbol of hate. If you don't know American history, the Confederate South did not want to abolish slavery. They were the ones that still wanted to keep Africans slaves while the North, known as the Union, was seeking to abolish slavery -- there's more to that story.

South Carolina is amongst the Confederate states.

In a nutshell, anyone with a raised Confederate flag pretty much hates your guts if you're an African-American; to them, you're just a free nigger; lost property. I saw my first Confederate flag while living on Canal Road in Deltona, Florida and yes, it was erected with pride on someone's porch.

In any event, is this  actually  progress? Is banning the Confederate flag progress for society? Will banning the Confederate flag put an end to racism and discrimination endured by African-Americans by the hands of prejudice Whites? 

No.

Confederate bas relief of Civil War leaders; Stone Mountain, GA

The Confederate fag is indeed overt hatred, but what about the Whites that are smart enough to hate Blacks covertly? Moreover, if America bans the Confederate flag, it will have to eradicate  everything  associated with the Confederacy -- flags, memorials, bas reliefs, and statues. For instance, in Stone Mountain Park (Stone Mountain, Georgia), there's a bas relief of Civil War leaders and they were Confederates. If America bans Confederate flags, but allow Confederate monuments and memorials to still exist, is there any  true  significance in banning a flag?