Response to Confederates in the Attic

The article was incredibly interesting to me, especially being from the south and not knowing just how extreme some people still are about the Confederacy and Civil War. I found it quite admirable just how dedicated these southerners were to honoring and remembering their fallen family members. I also found it interesting that all of these white southerners were unified in their response about why we fought the Civil War, which was not to uphold the unjust practice of slavery but to fight a government that was attempting to dictate the South's way of life. They were and still angry about the government telling them how to live their lives when they had no concept of what the South was like and what it was all about. i found it quite interesting too the points about how the South has received a raw deal since the Civil War and the fact that the South lost so much more in the Civil War than the North, which is completely true in my opinion. I was firmly in support of these notions. Yet at times these dedicated southerners seemed to obsessive. Yes, the Civil War and Southern style of living is and always will be extremely important but the war is over and has been time for years now for us to grow and expand of it. Things had to change and they did and still people cling to past in my opinion to avoid dealing with their own present problems. When the trip was made in the article to the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, I discovered just how conflicted we are in the South still to this day. I believe it is right to remember and even glorify our Confederate leaders and troops. Yet we cannot be offensive and disrespect others. African-Americans should be discriminated when they see statues of men that fought against their freedom. They shouldn't be reminded of the terrible past their ancestors had. White southerners need to accept Appomattox as the end of the Confederacy and the Civil War, yet still remembering and honoring one's family must always be done yet it must be done so in a discrete manner. I'm sorry to believe though that there will always be a debate concerning this issue because both sides are right. Finding the balance between the two feelings will be near impossible yet it would be greatly beneficial.