The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is considered by military experts to be the most elite division of America’s military. As the nation continues to suffer from rapidly-spreading rashes of race riots and violent protests, the USMC has enforced a controversial ban on the Confederate Flag. This menacing but truthful banner of American history used to be the official flag for the Southern states of America’s pre-Civil War Confederacy. All of these states were fiercely against the abolition of black slavery.

Leaders inside the Northern Union States of America’s pre-Civil War history were the initiators of the abolitionist movement, which eventually outlawed slavery, unified the U.S. government, and ultimately destroyed the Confederacy’s slavery-dependent infrastructure forever. However, unifying America’s national government by virtue of the Civil War came at a cost that was paid for in many lakes of blood. Seasoned historians have said casualty counts of one million are inaccurate underestimations.

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Also, the Union victory over the Confederacy’s forces was not a route. The South’s pro-slavery soldiers nearly beat their anti-slavery enemies in America’s bloodiest war. Despite not having the North’s sophisticated war machinery, the South’s brutal last punch before its narrow loss at the famous Battle of Gettysburg looked more like a Civil War stalemate than a decisive Northern victory. Over the ages, memories of old Confederacy might linger with proud rebel songs like “The South Will Rise Again.”

Today’s USMC knows this and that is why they have enforced a ban on all its military bases during today’s race riots. Though its ban is largely a symbolic act enforced to appease loud civilian voices of victimization, the USMC released a seriously-toned statement. This expressed the military branch’s will to let today’s pro-slavery sympathizers know that a massive unit equipped with overwhelming force is watching them.

“The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremists and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps. This presents a threat to our core values, unit cohesion, security, and good order and discipline. This must be addressed,” read the USMC’s statement.

The USMC is the first and only branch of America’s Armed Forces to impose its ideological stance in today’s times; an era in which the nation continues to be under an extremely dangerous and growing threat posed by well-armed racist groups.

Black America’s time for being on the sidelines of a looming military fight for its right to exist is running out.

Source: A New Civil War: Inside the Confederate Flag’s Banning Courtesy of the U.S. Marines