Sublime

When Bud grew accustomed to the dim light, he recognized the boyish good looks of the vice president of the United States. “Care for a brewski, Reverend Winkler?”

Goad’s analysis of race and class in America broke through to academia, in Penn State professor Shannon Sullivan’s superb 2014 book Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. Sullivan, who is very left wing, takes a scholarly approach to Goad’s ideas and agrees with many of his conclusions.

She lived in the midst of God’s most treasured souls: the poor, the disregarded, and the humiliated. She had made her schoolhouse into a humble kingdom of acceptance,

young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.

Send Out Thin Mints

The firm hosted a dinner for me at The Mansion. Jack Hauer, another named partner who was a very well known and respected litigator around town, was the lead host. When we were down to the brandy and cigars, Jack said, "I'd like to ask you a question.""Sure," I replied."You write a column for the Dallas Times Herald," he said, referring to the