Civil Rights Reconciliation Amendment

[The United States is a multi-racial society and has been since its founding. However, race is a scourge on the country, used to divide American from American so petty demagogues and bigots can create powerbases for themselves when they lack the intellectual ability and moral integrity to influence society on their own merits. This amendment is designed to promote a raceless society, one in which no American feels threatened by another and no American is barred from utilizing his God-given talents to maximize his greatness and the greatness of the American Nation.]

Clause 1: [This provision will abolish all affirmative action and racial set aside programs and will require racial equality before the law.]
The Congress and the states shall make no law which recognizes the race or national origin of any class of citizens of the United States or grants special privileges and immunities as a result of a citizen's race or national origin.
Any person or organization of persons who intentionally refuses to conduct commerce with any person or organization of persons on account of race or national origin shall be subject to such penalties which may be determined by a suit of equity prosecuted under the judicial power of the United States, providing that no penalties may be imposed because of a failure to conduct commerce with a certain number of persons of a particular race or national origin.
The citizens of the United States may not assemble or petition the government of the United States or the government of any of the several States for redress of grievances on account of race or national origin.

Clause 2: [This provision will overturn all reprieves and pardons granted to persons who participated in the government or armed forces of the Confederate States during the Civil War. The provision has no tangible effect after more than a century; its value is simply symbolic. The United States still suffers from the lingering racial animosity of slavery and this is due in part from the practice of paying homage to persons who engaged in treason in order to maintain slavery.]
All acts of Congress to remove any disability incurred under the fourteenth article of amendment to this Constitution for any offense committed against the United States between the twelfth day of April in the year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-one and the first day of January in the year one thousand eight- hundred and sixty-six are hereby declared null and void.
All pardons granted by the President of the United States for any person disabled by the fourteenth article of amendment to this Constitution for offenses against the United States committed between the twelfth day of April in the year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-one and the first day of January in the year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-six are hereby declared null and void.

Clause 3: [This provision will remove the Confederate flag from all official flags in the United States. As long as a segment of the American population has a legitimate concern that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism, that flag should not be displayed for official reasons. This provision will not prohibit individual persons or associations thereof from displaying the Confederate flag, but it will remove a rallying point for bigots and demagogues.]
After one year from the ratification of this amendment no revenue of the United States, or any of the several States or any entity created by the constitutions or the legislative authority, or electors thereof, of any the several States shall be used to display any flag, emblem, symbol, pennant or standard which has been used to designate the government or armed forces of any state or group of states that has engaged in rebellion against the United States or any of the several states except for the purposes of establishing or maintaining historical or educational displays.

Clause 4: [This provision will prohibit all official homage to persons who participated in the Confederate government or armed forces. Schools, roads, public buildings, parks et cetera may not carry the name of such persons, nor may governments maintain statues or other monuments or memorials to honor such persons. As a concession to the lingering Confederate sympathies this provision could be modified to exempt cemeteries.]
After one year from the ratification of this amendment no revenue of the United States, or any of the several States or any entity created by the constitutions or the legislative authority, or the electors thereof, of any of the several States shall be used to establish or maintain any monument or memorial to any person or group of persons that has engaged in rebellion against the United States or any of the several states.

Clause 5: [This provision will prohibit the payment of reparations for slavery.]
Neither the United States, nor any of the several States shall make any reparation for any law in effect prior to the first day of January in the year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-six which was made null and void by the thirteenth article of amendment to this Constitution.
Neither the judicial power of the United States, nor the judicial power of any of the several states shall extend to any suit of equity prosecuted under any law in effect prior to the first day of January in the year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-six which was repealed by the thirteenth article of amendment to this Constitution.