I am asking philosophical questions. Ideas are worth more that these individual subjects. I'm asking about ideas.
I was raised to believe that people should not be discriminated against, nor receive special treatment based on the color of their skin. I've seen no evidence that suggests that is the wrong philosophy to adopt. In this circumstance, having a separate anthem is special treatment. But I'm not even asking about that, am I?
If this is acceptable, what isn't? How do you determine what isn't? In my view, if you are justifying any of it, things get real blurry when you are trying to determine where that line should be drawn. How do we make the distinction between justifiable disparate treatment of race and treatment that is not justified?