The fact is, people do change their minds.
The question is, how to get there.
I came across an interesting story recently in Leonard Zeskind's 2009 Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream.
Zeskind was interviewing a heathen who held to a staunchly folkish position: i.e. that the Northern Way is exclusively for those of Northern European descent.
Well, but.
There's a man who has been part of the informant's local heathen community for years. Decades ago this man decided to make heathenry the center of his life, and he's done so ever since.
He knows the Old Lore thoroughly. He does lots of work in the community.
He's a committed Thorsman who offers to the Thunderer every day.
He's black.
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Studies show that when people change their minds, it's usually the result of personal relationships. It's a long, slow work, a wor
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I like the post. Also being a Heathen who is black... just have to go the extra mile to show that the hammer around our neck is no