Autobiography for Dying For Dixie

I went to school in Kinston, North Carolina. This town consists of its fair share of farmers and southern hicks who love nothing more than their trucks, fishing, hunting, tobacco, and football. My school only had one black kid in the high school and only three in the entire school I believe. These numbers are crazy considering my school although small and private was one that had grades from kindergarten to high school. If you weren't white then you were just a minority but really the only person of your race, so obviously these few ones stood out. At times I wondered how these ones felt, but they were greatly accepted and no ones was ever discriminated to my knowledge. Yet only these ones know what feelings and emotions they had bottled up inside them considering their circumstances. I heard racist comments daily. You couldn't go one day at school without seeing some shirt that applied to the Confederacy or its flags. Just like Westerman, several boys' trucks had Confederate features. One in particular truck had a Confederate flag intricately designed on the back. No violence to my knowledge has ever broken out at my school concerning the debate of Confederate flag but certainly there is a possibility after reading the account from Horowitz. All the other teams we played except for one or two in football had African American players yet there weren't problems. Yet one team we always played consisted of all African Americans and there was intense rivarly between the both us in my opinion because of race. Yet back to flag, no one should ever shot because they are expressing their feelings yet people have to be wary of what they are doing. Flying a large flag for all to see is being showy and making everyone notice you. The Confederate flag is key part of our history and must be respected yet shoving it people's faces is incorrect because their negative and terrible connotations associated with it. But just like African Americans at my old school, people need to be less sensitive at times and suck it up. The same goes for whites for example when they see a Malcolm X shirt. Not everything needs to be taken as if someone is trying to offend, which people back home where I'm from did well to my knowledge, but I was in the majority so I have to ask myself really what do I know.