The Image of Hate

[chowder66]

22. That level of hate never really disappears or is rehabbed

She tries to state it must have been her dads opposition to integration and she couldn't have had her own convictions yet, in trying to excuse why she must have done that..... aka hate so damned hard.

That right there is a cop out. No one can tell me who has that much anger on their face that they don't have their own convictions. Bullshit. Even if she was raised in a racist household; to go out there and shout down another woman like that takes damned conviction.

Massery just wanted to feel better about herself at the expense of others. That's the kind of person she was back then and still is.


"Soon after, the friendship began to fray as Eckford began to believe Massery "wanted me to be cured and be over it and for this not to go on... She wanted me to be less uncomfortable so that she wouldn't feel responsible anymore." Massery also began to revise parts of her story to present the photo as an isolated incident (when she'd been involved in racist dialogue after it) and attempted to avoid implicating her family as a source of racial views. The friendship quietly dissolved in 1999, and she retreated from the public eye, speaking of her public actions as a mistake. The two women have only spoken twice since, both times in 2001 (the first being a call to Eckford during 9/11),[1] though the Masseries sent a condolence card after Eckford's son was killed.[1]

Since the friendship ended, Eckford has spoken of Massery as being exhibitionist and profiteering, and a "born-again bigot."[1]"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Massery