[Marroe]

This is an unfortunate story, but this is America too...not at all unusual in my area. The kid was a fan of southern rock, he probably had no clue what the confederate flag stood for, or why Lyndard Skynard uses it on their shirts, stickers, ect., as even when I was in school I noticed they don't teach much REAL American history in American history class. Nowadays the flag is more or less a redneck fashion statement.
The confederate flag isn't seen much in St. Louis, but we have more than enough race crimes, and hostility without it. I was even told by my victims defender when I was robbed at gunpoint I would have had a much easier time getting justice/protection if I had been black, and he had been white...but it was the other way around and it's unfortunate that race made such a difference in the way I was treated as a victim. It's also unfortunate that in certain areas here in St. Louis, and I'm sure in other places in this country, are still more or less segregated. Here mainly white people are on the southwest and west side, black people on the north and east side, and here where I am in the southeast side we have poor white people and Mexicans...sure it's a little more mixed up than that, but that's the main crunch of it. And no one really goes in other areas than where they live out of fear of what might happen to them when they wonder in the wrong neighborhood...I admit I think this way also, the one time I did go into one of these neighborhoods, I was greeted with a gun in my face.
All of this shit combined honestly makes me ashamed to be an American, and makes me wanna get the fuck outa here more and more each day. Shouldn't all this shit be behind us by now?