I like the idea of it, but I saw a version I liked better where the poc stripes are between each of the main color stripes.

It's well meaning, but my issue with it is that none of the other colors represent race - as they shouldn't. Red means life, orange is healing, yellow is sunlight, green is nature, harmony and peace is blue, and spirit is violet. None of these excluded people of color, and while the stripes may mean solidarity within the community, they seem more alienating and irrelevant when taking the rest of the flag into consideration. It serves more as a divide.

Another thing that bothers me is that the black stripe was previously used to represent those who died due to HIV. If this flag is what Philadelphia thinks is necessary, then that's fine, and at the end of the day it's just a flag that people make variations to all the time. But if it became a "standard" for the pride flag overall, I'd be more bothered.

Skin color has nothing to do with sexual orientation and gender identity. It's like saying being black makes you gay.