Starting in 1961, the Freedom Riders, comprised of African- andwhite-Americans, protested segregation by getting on Greyhoundbuses in Washington, DC (where segregation was not part of the law)and riding them into the Southern US states, where segregationprohibited people of different racial groups from riding busestogether. In the outtake of the The Freedom Ridersdocumentary, \"The Young Witness,\" we see Janie Forsyth McKinneyremembering her childhood experience with the Freedom Riders, anddescribing the psychology of her community members as\"dichotomous.\" When her community members stop the Freedom Riders'bus and firebomb it, she defied them and brought water to theprotesters who were leaving the bus, starting with a woman whoreminded her of Pearl, the woman who raised her. How does hercommunity respond?
Select one:
a. They commend her for her sense of rightness and justice.
b. They decide that if she is intellectually disabled (she usesthe word \"retarded\"), they don't need to find that she has donesomething morally wrong. So they \"find\" her intellectuallydisabled, \"weak minded.\"
c. They take her actions as an indication of severe moralfailure. They decide to try her as an adult, instead of as achild.