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Since I attended a predominantly black school growing up, Lexington Senior High School, I have seen first hand the type of racism experienced in Cats of the Confederacy and Dying for Dixie (minus the murder thank goodness!). Although I hardly ever experienced, at my school, any type of racial prejudice that included yelling hurtful, derogatory racial slurs at others or fighting because of a difference in race, the schools that surrounded Lexington mimicked the characters in the two passages. Often, when a couple of my friends and I would go to basketball or football games at the schools, they would always fly a confederate flag when they played my school. I do not normally take offense to the Confederate flag, mostly because I enjoy the history behind it (I didn't agree with slavery either, but it's interesting history nonetheless). However, the flags that were flown over the years weren't just to show off pride, it was, as Morrow put it, it was to "see what we [they] would do." I never really understood why they tried to pick a fight.

Also, while playing sports in high school, a lot of my black friends would get called the n-word during games. Nobody every called me anything like that, but I really hated it for my friends. Seeing racism in a different perspective really opened my eyes. I realized how mature many of my black friends were when something like that happened, because they would never retaliate, but would let it slide and would move on with life. They told me that they there were just some crazy white boys out there. Nevertheless, I sometimes felt ashamed that someone could do that to another person just because they were a different race.