Demby effectively gets his opinion of being pro confederate flag by explaning why people still use degrading symbols from the past as “memories of family cookouts and first dates”. For example, Demby explains how someone could take wearing a Philly’s baseball cap as offensive to African Americans because of the history behind the team. He uses the word “stubborn” and states that “they were the last to integrate” to show that the team was being ridiculous and difficult when it came to integrating. He understands why someone would take offense to his hat, but says “it was a different time” and that history is “not really relevant to [his] hat”. He doesn’t wear the hat to show he support the actions that team took in the past, but he wears it to show “where [he’s] from” and its for [his] city”. His essay was effective in getting his …show more content…
The writer does a great job at expressing his opinion on the matter early on in the article by stating “the way the North remembers the Civil War is also deeply flawed and misleading”. He continues to back up his assumption that the North remembers the Civil War differently than how it actually was by highlighting important events that many people are not aware of such as the incident involving Robert Peckham. He says “when Deacon Peckham espoused abolitionist sentiments, the church fathers excommunicated him….because they thought his ideas too extreme.” This backs up his title because when learning about the Civil War, you always hear about the South going against abolition, but you never hear about the North being against abolition because, like the title suggests, the North remembers the Civil War differently. The writer uses facts but also assumptions like “abolition made his neighbors angry”. Howard does a better job than Demby by making his piece more fact based followed by analysis of the event as opposed to writing more about people’s on the