"I don't find myself to be the arbiter of what is right and wrong in thi situation," she says. " consciousness raising is not a thing that you can have any amount of control over." The book, by bell hooks, was given to her when she needed it more than anything else at the time. It's hard to accept that tising love and compassion towards a person who you deeply and fully disagree with could lead to their buying a vehicle designed to kill him or her.