There are so many factors that can lead to this kind of behavior. Something corrupted their minds and poisoned them with racist ideologies.
These children decided it was acceptable to harass other students in their learning environment with racial slurs and oppressive speech. Just last year we saw outrageous behavior from some of our young and fragile minds at York County School of Technology. It is much easier to see an event like this happening in the late 60s than it is to envision such a tragedy occurring today, for which I am grateful, but we must still recognize the problems that exist. Her death was wrongful and ushered in by the lack of education that some small-minded locals had. Young woman Lillie Belle Allen was made into a political martyr because of a lack of cultural relativism.
Some of our older readers may remember the hot summer of 1969, boiling with racial tension. Racism is a disease that has plagued us locally and continues to do so. More: National support for black women asked to leave York County golf course I believe it is safe to reason that we find the incident and racist behavior to be unacceptable - but this has not always been our collective sentiment. The intense scrutiny that the club received for allegedly singling out five African American women, members of the golf club, stretched to include commentary from national talk shows. Seeing the recent surge of news articles and editorials regarding the Grandview Golf Club incident, I am thankful for the progress we as a town and as a country have made over the past several decades. Watch Video: VIDEO: Discrimination alleged at Grandview Golf Club
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