by Maelstrom himself In the 1960’s the Civil Rights movement achieved a successful Supreme Court enabling federal controls over public school populations in the various sovereign states in Brown vs. the Board of Education. In response, the Confederate flag was raised over the capitol buildings of several states. To date, some of those flags remain, forever identified with slavery, bigotry, and racism. Standing back from the fray I ask you to reconsider what those flags do represent. It is far too simplistic to state that Confederate the flag stands for the slavery that allegedly caused the Civil War to be ...