I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net

In Tara McPherson's article, "I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net," Tara describes how she came across a website for the Confederate Embassy in Washington D.C. She is in shock at how this is an actual place because the Confederate states no longer exist. She then finds other sites dedicated to the Confederate ideals of racism and sexism. These sites all contain links to other sites and umbrella sites. McPherson finds this to be terrible. This article says that the Confederate states think of a virtual secession at precisely the time when more black people are moving to the South than leaving for the first time since the Civil War.

I don't know how anyone can make the claims that McPherson makes. She assumes that simply because there are people who know how to make websites and are racist that the whole southern area is racist. These claims can not be true. She is simply looking for a reason to say that everyone is racist and she thinks the whole world is out to get the black population. Her assumptions show that she has not fully researched her information before making a claim about the information. She assumes the whole South is like what the Confederate states were like. Women should be housekeepers who don't think about sex at all and that black people are rapists and murderers. These are the ideals that she claims all southerners have simply because of a few racist individuals who made a few websites dealing with the topic. She is just as bad as the racists when she claims all southerners are racists and confederates. This is just basing beliefs on where a person is from instead of where the person's ancestors are from.

How can someone generalize that an area is racist based on a few racist individuals. I think this is absurd and is just as bad as being racist. Claiming someone is something based on location of where that person lives can be harmful to the people someone generalizes about. People who are associated with racism and the south are sometimes considered "white trash." this term can be as emotionally harmful as any racist term directed towards blacks, Mexicans, Asians, or any other racial identity given to foreigners in America. People just need to relax and stop assuming the world is out to get them and try to get the world. The world would be a better place if people stopped assuming everyone was out to get them. People should realize that not everyone is out to get them and if they work hard then less people will be out to bring them down.