I personally think this is much ado about nothing, but its really hard to tell from the outside looking in.
This does remind me of one of my favorite South Park episodes though, where the town flag is being protested by chef. Here is a quick synopsis for those who haven't seen it:
Essentially the south park town flag was/is 4 white stick figures hanging 1 black stick figure. The children of the town see nothing wrong with the flag while the adults debate furiously about the issue. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the reason the children didn't understand why the debate was such a big deal is because they mistakenly thought that the issue was to do with capital punishment which made Chef realize that the children weren't racist and in fact were so "un"-racist that they didn't see it as 4 white men hanging a black man but rather 4 people hanging another person, the race of the 5 people on the flag was completely unimportant to them to the point that it never even entered their thought process on the subject thus prompting Chef to say "Thats the most beautiful thing I've ever heard!"
Its a fantastic sentiment.