Racism on the increase?

Not so very long ago, a local man was prosecuted by the Local authority under some archane law for displaying a Union Jack in his garden. Actually he could have appealed because technically it is only the Union Jack when flown on a boat, otherwise it is the Union Flag, but as ever I digress from the main point. The council decided that flying our national flag was likely to cause offence, and potentially racist. Well I have to say I have noticed a dramtic increase in this racist behaviour in recent weeks. Even our local Co-Op is selling flags. I suspect that there will be a peak to this racially inflammatory display of British flag flying towards next Friday. Can anybody explain to me why I am a racist if I fly my own countries flag on a daily basis, but a royalist if I fly it only on the run up to a Royal Wedding?