Meanwhile, local journalists rushed en masse to psychologists and academics in a desperate search for a convenient and palliative explanation for the rampage. More importantly, the liberal establishment scavenged about for a situational ethic to fit the crime. There were people who saw Sodom and Gomorrah, and people who didn't see anything. The truth is somewhere lost in those perceptions. People tend to see what they want to see and evaluate it the way they want to evaluate it.
People tend to ignore information which disconfirms what they are already believing.
Unable to grasp alternate realities or to overcome their cognitive dissonance, whites must confront the mess left behind by an unwanted flood of black miscreants. However, Tana Whitfield, who participated in Black Springbreak, rejected any condemnation of the event. My generation is different from the last generation. If you tell us we can't come, you best believe we're going to come. Recently, the mayor of Biloxi ordered the Confederate Battle Flag removed from all public properties and replaced with the obscure First National Confederate banner.