Hot on the heels of my Pontiac fiasco, Mother Jones magazine has posted a manifesto about Highland Park, written by Dallas-born Josh Harkinson.
It tackles a lot of issues – race at Dallas Country Club, the finances of Beretta – and includes this doozy:
A friend who is a descendant of one of Highland Park’s founding families was discussing this history over lunch at Washburne’s Mi Cocina restaurant when a black acquaintance, a successful loan broker, stopped by our table. Answering before I could ask, my friend said, “He does not live in Highland Park.”
It’s an interesting read, and draws some strange – but reasonable – parallels between Highland Park and Berkeley, California. Dive in.
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