Tim Wise: To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos.

[The Conductor]

29. There is a coda to the story...

If being a liberal means anything at all, it means being able to concede mistakes and allowing that people are not perfect, but may aspire to be that way. Hazel Bryan later became good friends with Elizabeth Eckford, and they seem to have genuinely enjoyed each other's company. Always haunted by the singular image of that hateful time, the later Hazel Massery and Elizabeth Ekford apparently overcame the awful start they had on first meeting.

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

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAeckford.htm

The same photojournalist who took their photo in 1957 caught up with them in 1998, when they were photographed together. People can learn to get beyond their hate - and we can all learn from that. That does not mean there is no consequences for hold hate in the first place, something that tortured Hazel Massery later and she always felt responsible for the trauma Elizabeth Ekford suffered all those years. So learning not to hate is good, but not hating in the first place would have been far better.