Blog #10

To me, I felt that Michael was like a fuse to a unknown bomb and was his death accrue, the "bomb" exploded. Causing a huge problem with different race. Since a black guy killed a white guy, both race saw the race saw the killing in different prospectives. The boy how shot Michael, Freddie Morrow was already having a bad day to being with, I bet that Freddie would have shot anyone but seeing that flag was just enough to sent Freddie to the boiling point. "Just before Christmas, Freddie got into a fight after being taunted during a school assembly. Freddie was suspended, then told by school officials that he'd missed so much class time that he'd flunk for the second year running. It was during this suspension that he shot Michael Westerman." That line tells me that he was already fired up, and since he always takes his gun out on M.L.K's birthday, all he needed was an accuse to use it, which was Michael's flag. Michael happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. No one in this story would ever know why Michael had the flag because everyone has different reasons to why he had the flag up in the first place. "Michael died because of his "beliefs and his constitutional rights'" Michael's father, David said, but his girlfriend/wife Hannah said "He'd do anything to make his truck look sharp. The truck's red. The flag's red. They match." And lastly Brenda Arms said "Michael's personal reason for flying the Confederate flag was to show the pride he felt in his ancestors who fought and died for the flag, as well as to show his Southern heritage." Everyone who is agaisnt Freddie is trying to make up a reason for the flag on the truck, but most don't want to believe that the shooting was more of a random attack. Both sides actually don't know why they're fighting, they're just trying to make up a reason, using the Confederate flag as the base.