What was/were the root cause(s) of Michael Westerman's death?
The civil war took place in the nineteenth-century however Michael Westerman asked for a death wish when he drove to an area that was strongly against the rebel flag and he purposley waved around the rebel flag on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And this happend recently way after the civil war. The root cause for this was ignorance and jealousy for black people having the same rights as them because they no longer felt special, when he waived around that flag he felt a sence of power.
"That same weekend, a nineteen-year-old named Michael Westerman drove through Guthrie with a rebel flag flying from his pickup."
Challenge: In a natural and thoughtful manner, connect the dots between this reading and the readings/topics that we have covered in the past month (for example, we have already seen that Madison's concept of representatives in Fed. 10 is present in the middle school meeting).
A faction was shown in this group when the majority of people in the middle school wanted the rebel flag to stay as the school's mascot. There were two groups one for the mascot and one against. The school boards job was to decide who to listen to, they were sort of like a republic.
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