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Jerry Brewer's Reply:

U. S. Flag: Enduring Symbol of Racial Repression
There's an old country song that says, "Mama don't allow no fiddle playin'
in here." The next line says, "We don't care what Mama don't allow, we're
gonna play that fiddle anyhow."

That's the mindset of those who cast the Confederate flag in the historical
revisionist mould of racism and simply refuse to understand the bloody,
racist history of the Stars and Stripes. They don't care what historical
facts allow, they're "gonna play that Confederate hatred fiddle anyhow."

The most prominent racist organization of the 19th century was the federal
government. After the rape and subjugation of the South, greedy Yankee eyes
turned westward to the vast continent that stretched to the Pacific. But
the Indians who inhabited that land had to be rounded up and driven like
cattle onto "Reservations," and step by step, from the Sand Creek Massacre
in Colorado through the Greasy Grass fight (Custer's pay day) to its
culmination at Wounded Knee, the Stars and Stripes flew over the blue coats
who executed the federal government's genocidal policy.

While Abraham Lincoln was president in 1864, Colorado Cavalry troopers
developed a warfare prototype against the Cheyennes at Sand Creek that
would become standard operating procedure to rid the plains of Indians.
Under the command of Colonel John Chivington, the troopers launched a
surprise attack against a peaceful village of Cheyennes encamped at Sand
Creek, after leading them to believe the Americans had peaceful intentions.
It was the American flag that flew over this profoundly sad and treacherous
pogrom in which helpless women, children, the aged and infirm were brutally
and indiscriminately slaughtered

In a story in the University of Kentucky newspaper, "Kentucky Kernel,"
Nikole Wolfe wrote,
"'A Confederate flag is a symbol for two different moments in history, the
Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement,' said Tracy Campbell, an American
history professor at UK.

Campbell agreed that the flag should be removed from the Statehouse in
South Carolina because it was placed there during the Civil Rights
movement, and, therefore, represents racial repression."

Like most who are saturated with leftist ideology, Campbell equates the
Confederate flag with racism, but ignores the bloody, documented history of
the Stars and Stripes as a symbol of government-mandated racism. Cheyenne
Chief Black Kettle was a prominent Peace Chief among his people who placed
his trust in Yankee promises and the Stars and Stripes, only to be betrayed
by both in their campaign to eradicate an entire race of people.

"When the attack began Black Kettle was convinced that there had been a
mistake and the soldiers didn't intend to kill them. Rushing from his lodge
with an American flag that had been given to him in 1856, he raised it with
a white flag of truce on his lodge pole. He was quickly joined by White
Antelope and both men urged calm among their people, saying they were under
the protection of the troops. But their appeals went unheeded as the
troopers continued firing indiscriminately. Bullets whizzed past them and
survivors of the massacre described the sound as bees buzzing and hail
hitting the lodge skins.
"Horrified at the carnage and fearing for their lives, the group that had
gathered at Black Kettle's lodge scattered. Many of them sought refuge in
the dry creek bed which was their only avenue of escape. White Antelope,
with upraised hands, ran toward the troopers crying for them to stop. When
he was within 15 or 20 feet of the line of troops they fired at him. With
bullets slicing the air and death all around him, he stood in the middle of
Sand Creek, chanting his death song. 'Nothing lives long, except the earth
and the mountains.'
"Fleeing up Sand Creek with his wife, Medicine Woman, Black Kettle heard
the mournful strains of the death chant. Medicine Woman was wounded nine
times, but managed to survive. Chivington's troops killed and mutilated
about 150 Indians, most of them women and children. After gunning down
White Antelope, the soldiers celebrated by cutting off his ears and nose.
In a final atrocity, they cut off his scrotum to be used as a tobacco
pouch. He was 75 years old." (Jerry Brewer, "Unto Thy People: The Story of
One Southron Family," Copyright 1996, p. 81).

Four years later, almost to the day, Black Kettle and Medicine Woman were
murdered by Custer's blue coats at the Washita River in what is now Western
Oklahoma. Custer, under the command of Sherman and Sheridan, utilized the
same tactics employed by Chivington, surprising the Cheyennes and
slaughtering innocent women, children, the aged and the infirm. That was in
November, 1868 and was carried out under the Stars and Stripes. Those are
the facts. Tracy Campbell can choose to ignore them and "play that fiddle
anyhow," but they are writ large on the pages of Yankee history and no
amount of Marxist revisionism can change them.

The Stars and Stripes, Professor Campbell, flew long before there was a
Confederate flag, and 135 years later it remains the most enduring symbol
of racism in American history.
Jerry C. Brewer
Native Texan, CSA

Nathan W.'s Letter

I am a history major at a S.C. college in the upstate. It has become very clear to me that many people were
must have been asleep in their American history classes. The thing that I am tired of is hearing how
the Civil War (aka The War of Southern Independence), was fought over the issue of slavery. This
couldn't be further from the truth. Slavery was protected under the U.S. constitution. Many things led
to the Civil War. First you must understand that the North was looking out for its own interest. They
was a plan just before the civil war to run a railway across the country to the pacific ocean. The Northern
politicians were doing everything possible to make sure it ran through their states. This angered many
Southerners. On top of that issue the government had just passed new tariffs which put a huge
economic strain on the South. By this time it was becoming clear to most southerners that the federal
government was corrupt and was becoming to powerful. For those reasons the south decided to succeed
from the union----which it had every right to do under the constitution. Slavery only entered into the
equation when northerners need a moral reason to have infringed on the South's constitutional right
to form its own government. I encourage everyone to research the issue more. There are plenty of
factors that led to the Civil War, not just slavery. The Confederate flag represents a proud people who
were not going to allow the federal government to control their lives. For that reason the flag should
remain on the S.C. statehouse dome, forever! Deo Vindice!