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In reply to the discussion: Mea Culpa... [View all]Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)...or ignorance. She displays signs of willful ignorance, she chose not to know. In her interview she was oblivious to the fact TM was a person, much less a child. The same way she saw the plants in her neighborhood, she saw black people as scenery. There was no hate, but no love or understanding as well. It simply never occurred to her to try to learn about people who didn't look like her.
I'm basing this on her statement about not writing a book. I think she learned something in he backlash around her behavior. She might have finally understood that she wasn't sequestered during the trail. She has spent her life sequestered from society. Judging from her wording (at least I'm hoping from her wording) she might be taking a look out of the door of her self imposed prison.