Sure if you consider loss of your reputation, friends, and harassment and death threats to him and his family doing "just fine" (this has been reported). You seem perfectly happy with the mob mentality, so I guess to you it's no big deal. To each his own I guess. I personally think that who a person is and what they have done to become that person matters more than 30 year old lapses in judgement, especially when the life they have lived since shows them to have learned and grown as human beings. But if you're fine with vilification at all costs, well I guess you fit right in with the mob.
How can you know they have grown? How can you know there's been an actual, earnest change and not just a self-serving, opportunistic switch? I know you will again point out to the life they've lived and all that, but when the stakes are this high, you have to be a little suspicious of Road to Damascus changes in views when they just happen to coincide with major shifts in society and politics. In other words, when people conveniently see the light when it means getting votes.
Look at the gay rights in the US. Not that long ago, laws were being passed specifically banning gay marriage and politicians were casually spouting homophobic stuff to justify it. Now, gay marriage is legal and allies seem to be everywhere. The problem is that this shift of views had little to do with a shift in people. The same politicians who fought gay marriage are now supporting it. Obama, Hillary, that Hawaiian congresswoman running for president. Coincidentally, all switched when it would have appeared to be politically expedient. Funny how that works. How come you don't see politicians who supported gay marriage 20 years ago but have now come to oppose it?
NBA players used to spout gay slurs on and off the courts, but suddenly they aren't. It's the same damn players, too. I'd love to believe they've all grown as people, but it's hard not to think about this through the prism of endorsements and business opportunism. I really want to believe that Tim Hardaway Sr. has undergone some amazing change and become an ally of the LGBTQ community, but the fact that it all happened after his gravy train of paid-after-dinner-speaker-because-I'm-a-former-NBA-star was derailed troubles me just enough to be wary.
I do think people can change, but I also recognize that there is plenty to be gained from pretending to change. And I am not black, but I can see how it would be deeply troubling when past blackface pictures of elected officials surface. Especially when those elected officials seem fairly flippant about it and seem more concerned about the damage to their reputation than the damage to the trust of their constituents. When pictures of you in KKK regalia come up, you can
never be the victim in the situation. Trying to portray yourself as one is just additionally offensive.