Your recent editorial regarding the controversy over the issuance of Texas license plates with a Confederate flag emblem ignores a very important historical point: Slavery in America was protected under the U.S. flag from 1776 to 1866 — 90 years — yet we only protest the Confederate flag, which existed for only four years ("Wavering on the Confederate flag," March 23).
If the Confederate flag is racist, the U.S. flag is orders of magnitude worse from an historical perspective.
If we want to censor flag images because they were at least at one time in history racist, we should censor both flags on license plates and in all public spaces. Not to do so would be extremely hypocritical.
Thomas DiLorenzo