"Damned with Faint Praise".

AuthorTiffany, Charles B.
PositionLetters - Letter to the editor

Our president (May President's Page) has followed in the Bard's footsteps by unwittingly denigrating the legacy of Justice Hatchett. Our leader seems to infer that Joseph Hatchett attained his seat because Rueben Askew was seeking cultural diversity. Hatchett was not selected because of the color of his skin but by the content of his character. He fought battles for those who always got the short end of the stick. He took cases that the elites of the bar ran away from because they might lose rich white clients. He had more guts than a second story man. Askew...

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