There's hope for Aiken, just like there's hope for Kellen, because it's their sister making them face their prejudice. When a prejudice is learned from a parent or guardian and they pass away, it's even harder to let go of. It takes a long time or a bond as strong as family to beat it. You try and rationalize it, guard it, enforce it, because it's something they gave you, something passionate. It feels like if you let go of it, you'll be letting go of another part of them. And how could they be wrong? They couldn't have room for baseless hatred and still have room to love you, right?
But you can't know what started that hatred in them. It could have been their family when they were growing up, or their childhood friends, or one absolute jerk that made them so angry that they forgot the jerk was a person and they began to hate everything that defined them. It could have been as simple as a lack of understanding and a fear of the unknown.
Everyone makes mistakes, everyone makes errors in judgment, everyone is simply completely wrong from time to time. You don't have to hate them to know they were wrong. You don't have to rethink everything else they taught you.
Hatred gets you in the history books, but love is what gets you remembered. Remember your loved ones, and remember your brothers and sisters and cousins.
@WingedReaper777: On your unrelated note: DO NOT EAT MY SANDWICH
On a comic-related unrelated note: THANK YOU for not screwing up "intents and purposes." Every time I see "intensive purposes" or "should of done" it's like my retinas become chalkboards and *skreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Nooo what are you doing just give him Fara's number and say "She'd love to hear from an old friend" you're taking it too far this can only end badly noooooo
I miss texting with the old digit pad phones. Even if I was doing something that required as much concentration as driving, I could send a text without ever having to look at the screen. But then I'd miss all the new Android stuff.