“WELL, NOW THAT WE’VE finished eating,” Clark says, “let’s get down to business.”
As we talked about, I’m sitting next to Clark, who is sitting at the head of the table as both host and chairman of the Association this year. My eye is on the door, expecting someone to come in any minute.
“I think I can speak for everyone here, Clark,” Ezekiel Thompson, pastor of the Bethel AME Church, says, “when I say please pass on to the ladies of your church our thanks for a truly delicious meal.”
“I will,” Clark says. “Viv will be particularly pleased to hear it.”
“The food was truly delicious, sir,” Officer Nina Hallstead says. Helen’s meeting went over, she told me, so she sent Nina in her place. She’s the only woman in the room, and by far the tallest person here.
“Well, as I say, it’s our pri
