"Dying for Dixie"

The root cause of Michael Westerman's murder was the interpretation of the Rebel flag that Michael had on his truck. The teenagers that attacked him interpreted the flag as a symbol of slavery. I think it was a bad part on both parts, but obviously more so on the murderer's side. The strange thing is that the shooter didn't even exactly know what the flag represented. He just knew that his race was supposed to hate it and that it was on the Dukes of Hazzard; not a lot of motivation for killing in my opinion. "Let's go whip that dude" is what he told his friends. This story is just absurd to me. Why would people go around killing other people because of what they think they're supposed to think. It's a crazy story and I was pretty interested in it.