The Stars and Bars of the Confederate nation was first raised over the South Carolina State House on April 11, 1961 to commemorate the centennial celebration of the War Between The States and a year later the state’s all-white legislators enacted a law to continue flying the flag as a protest against the civil rights movement. Recently the rebel battle flag from the Citadel was transferred from atop the capitol dome to its present station as a compromise to indignant calls for its removal, however the flag was not lowered to half-mast after the recent mass killing of black church goers by a right-wing racist in Charleston.

Lowering the flag requires a super majority vote by the state’s legislature, the CSA’s flag had originally been banned after the all-black 55th Massachusetts regiment occupied the birthplace of secession in February 1965.

Many southerners had argued that the flag had been a monument to the fallen dead of the South, however its true meaning had been best surmised by William Tappan Thompson, a pro-slavery writer in 1863.

“As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race.”

The Stars and Bars exist strictly as a symbol of institutional slavery and the continued repression of anyone who is not white.

ps William Tappan Thompson came from New York, which along with Rhode Island and Boston are the most racist regions of the Northeast.

On July 10, 2015 an honor guard from the South Carolina Highway patrol removed the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, South Carolina, ending its 54-year presence according to the Detroit Free Press and the Stars and Bars remains out of view.

Hopefully forever, although the great-grandchildren of the Lost Cause still believe that in the return of slavery.

ps the 55th Massachusetts regiment’s first acts upon entering Charleston were restoring order and putting out the fires set by looters.

Ever-Victorious.