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 Posted By Ruth King on December 18th, 2020 The New York Times has published the latest installment in its running tally of alleged racism in the high arts: the Staatsballett Berlin (Berlin State Ballet) treated a black ballerina differently because of the color of her skin. Oh, wait! That was yesterday’s template. Today’s is that a black ballerina was treated the same as white ballerinas. The search for racism requires just such rhetorical nimbleness. Since the nineteenth century, dancers in a corps de ballet often applied white body paint i...

Mar 23, 1931 Dec 07, 2020 Thomas W. Smith, born March 23rd, 1931 to Robert L. “Bob” Smith, II and Willie Mae Smith passed away on December 7th, 2020 in San Angelo, Texas. Originally from Slaton, Texas, Tom wore Slaton Tiger jersey #24 and enjoyed the aggressive acquisition of real-estate on the grid-iron at a time when real men wore leather helmets without face-masks, high-top leather cleats and marked their march to the goal-line with real pigskin. Tom graduated from Slaton High School in 1949 and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad until being drafted into the U.S. Army. While in the A...