The Irony of Racial Pride

The idea of boasting any sort of racial pride is counterproductive unless one wishes to further themselves from all others outside of their race. You’re proud to be black? That must have been so difficult for you to have been incidentally born with a darker pigmentation. Now let us continue to force a social segregation. No. There is neither pride nor shame to be found here. If one is to be proud of something, be proud of being on the side of a movement that discouraged segregation and fought for equality. One undermines those efforts when saying, “but I’m still proud that I was born differently from you.”

Yes, celebrate our differences. Our differences themselves are among the most important aspects of our species and the human experience overall. But when one carries the flag of that difference, boasting of such a mundane and innate trait as the difference that defines one's self, it is made more difficult to tear down the societal walls between the flag waver(s) and everybody else. The flags are important but become far less meritorious an attestation when used to rage war.
Put them down. Leave them on your coffee table and go out and celebrate that difference by realizing that in the end, it does not matter.
This of course, goes for all races.