Responce to Dying for Dixie

I thought this peice of writing was very contriversal, and it raised a lot of racial issues that are still going on to this day. I believe Horowitz did a great job in the order that he put this story. He gave a little history about the town at the beginning, and then towards the middle he starts to get into what happened with Micheal's death. He talks about how the town had been divided in a war between blacks and whites over the confederate flag, and whether the flag should stay as the school mascot or not. As a result of thee arguing over this flag a lot of racial tension rose, and blacks were beginning to speek out and wear things advertising malcom X. The KKK memebers started to recruit people, and town hall meetings were being held, but the death of micheal caused the greatest uproar of all. Micheal was killed by freddie a black male, and freddie was charged with felony charges. Horowitz talks about the two young men, and discovers that they both were similar in charcteristics, and he saw this as not just a cause of racial tension, but a cause of two young teenage boys clashing egos. Horowitzs revals through his writing his sympothy for both young men at the end of the chapter when he talks to both of their families,and you get to see the good in both of the young men. This chapter I beleive shows the consequences of rascism whether its a black man being racsist towards a white man or the other way around. It shows that it is wrong period, and it only leads to death or jail.