Many of their new friends held extremely racist views and eventually persuaded the Weavers to adopt some of these views. Vicki accepted as justification for these racist views passages in the Biblical apocrypha, the so-called lost books of the Bible, which describe the African race as sinners and "mud people." The Weavers's philosophies were ever changing, but bascially they accepted those who fit into their world, such as Kevin Harris, and rejected those who did not.