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I recently finished reading "Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War" by Tony Horwitz. The book captured my interest, for I was curious to know more about the feelings, held by Southerners, towards the Civil War and the Confederacy. The book satisfied my curiosity and shocked me, for I never imagined that right here in America there were so many enemies of America. I think the whole effort to rid Afganistan of Talibans is misplaced. More should be done to rid America of Southern revanchists. The extent of the ignorance, bigotry and fantasy, held by the Southerners depicted in the book was, to me, quite startling. But I never expected to find this sort of behavior in the North. Certainly not in Massachusetts. Yet, it happened just last week, in Cambridge, the supposed bastion of liberalism. Henry Lous Gates, Jr., was arrested for entering his own home. The police was called due to a reported break in attempt, and ended up arresting Henry Louis Gates after entering his house, uninvited. It did not matter that he identified himself to the police, only that he showed some indignation at the insistent questioning after he properly identified himself. Some friends vehemently chastised me for being cynical regarding race relations in the USA, after Barak Obama was elected president. Unfortunately, the Horvitz book and the Henry Lous Gates incident show, it is not I that is cynical, but them that are exceedingly pollyannaish.
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