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Creative Writing: Email To Mrs. Misfeldt

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Email to Mrs. Misfeldt Hello Mrs. Misfeldt I hope you are doing well. I am happily off at college at the University of Duke in Durham, Nc. My roommate happened to be from North Carolina and the two of us are getting along quite nicely. I noticed in the second week of school that my roommate happened to have a confederate flag sticker on his computer. As a potential history major I wondered whether my roommate understood the complexity behind the symbol. When I politely asked about it my roommate responded with “it’s no big deal. I don’t mean any disrespect with it. It’s really not that important--it’s just a sticker.” Like the students at Christiansburg High School who claimed that the flag wasn’t about hate, that they were just showing

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