Reply #5: People don't necessarily change because you reach out to them...

[YankmeCrankme]

they usually change because something dramatic/traumatic happens in their life that impacts their belief system directly and their bigotry can't account for or rationalize it away.

You example doesn't prove anything. To me, it sounds like Hugo Black may have already gotten over his bigotry, if he ever was one and I don't know that since my knowledge of Black is nil, by the time Marshall had his interaction with him. You can grow up in an environment and not become a product of that environment. Maybe that was the case for Black. I don't know. I don't think Marshall going to visit him (reaching out) and making a case for their bill somehow changed Black from a bigot to not a bigot. There is probably much more to it than that.