Dustin Harrison (a friend) expressed frustration that Harris and Klebold had been placed within the group. He also said media reports were wrong to lump the two boys, indistinguishably, with one another. He described Dylan Klebold as an aggressive racist, routinely walking down the hall railing against "n-words" and "spics." He wore Gothic clothing lettered with German phrases, but wasn't into the "Nazi mentality," Harrison said. Several students talked about Klebold's sporadic and severe bouts of depression, though it was apparently not evident the morning of the massacre.
Eric Harris, by contrast, was described as bubbly and effervescent. He was a fierce proponent of Nazi principles, though curiously, Harrison insisted, not its racist elements. He reportedly interacted well with the handful of minority students at Columbine High School, and no one could recall him making any of the racist outbursts attributed to Klebold.