Sorry, I don't buy it. Once a racist bigot, always a racist bigot. I don't care how old she was. She's a disgrace.

 

What Hazel did was wrong and disgraceful. My point was that after reading the article, I was much more alarmed and disgusted by the actions of so many white ADULTS on that day. IMO, what they did was far worse than a 15 year-old-girl chanting. As far as you comment about always being a racist bigot, read on from the article:

 

Having pondered Hazel’s face for decades, Jacoway (a jounalist) had been expecting an uneducated hick and was surprised by how articulate and remorseful she was.

In the years after Little Rock, Hazel had become increasingly political, branching out into peace activism and social work. One programme focused on self-esteem for teenagers. She took black teenagers who rarely had left Little Rock on field trips, climbing Pinnacle Mountain and picking strawberries. And, putting her course work in child psychology to use, she counselled young unwed mothers, many of them black, on parenting skills.

Her whole outlook towards black people had changed. At the Barnes & Noble in Little Rock, she perused the sections on black history. She read David Shipler’s study of black-white relations in America, A Country of Strangers, a book Elizabeth herself had helped inspire.

Yes, because this 15yo girl is headed for a life of mass murder. Please, maybe you should go rent Remember the Titans.

 

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Great story, thanks for sharing. Glad to see people grow up, and attitudes change.

A disgrace is condeming someone for what they did at 15 despite evidence that they have spent a lifetime trying to atone for their ignorance. Sad.

Thanks 75center. You made my point in 26 words! :lol:

Sorry, I don't buy it. Once a racist bigot, always a racist bigot. I don't care how old she was. She's a disgrace.

 

Completely, totally, utterly disagree. My father was raised a racist and a bigot. He is the best man I've ever known. His experiences in the 60's and 70's, working alongside many of the roughest, toughest and meanest didn't help the situation. He twice had co-workers attack him with box cutters and pastry scrapers, one was black, one was white....only to be defended by other black co-workers. Today, my father's views are totally reversed, and now in his late 70's, has often expressed sincere regret that his ignorance kept him from understanding that no matter your skin color, you are human. That there are good and there are bad in every race.

You don't think a person can change after the age of 15?

 

Perhaps she could argue that she was born that way and could do nothing about it?

 

My dad changed his views in his 40's. People can change at any age.

No, not really. Are we not allowed to form opinions on people based on their actions?

 

So I guess we should just give Hitler the benefit of the doubt that he was a swell guy? I mean by claiming him as a mass-murdering pyscho, aren't we judging him based on his actions?

 

I don't think I personally know ANYONE who's not changed their views, made stupid, idiotic mistakes, and generally done things in their past they thought were right, but found out they were wrong. Of course, I've lived to an age about twice yours, so maybe I'm just lucky to have surrounded myself with imperfect humans.

Remember my post where my Mom called the school and was upset her son went to school with Black kids? Like RockMom's Dad my Mom also changed her stance. Some of my best friends at my work place were Black guys, and at the Railroad there were over 500 men who worked there. People can change for the good, the Holy Spiriit will see to it.

 

So my sons are raised with their parents never saying words along race tones, it simply has never been said in our home. And they have many black friends.

My dad changed his views in his 40's. People can change at any age.

 

I agree. But, with UKMF's view, I don't even see how a person could be held responsible for being racist. Obviously it can't be changed, so that's just the way they are. How can you hold someone responsible for their actions if an alternative action isn't possible?:idunno: