Dull in the Heart
When I was growing up, folks sometimes referred to the intellectually disabled as “dull in the head.” I think about that today as I contemplate a terrible anniversary for the state of Texas. An instance of that the state of Texas and Hill County pretend has no meaning and no place in contemporary discourse. A day that the city of Hillsboro gets away with every January 20.
One hundred years ago today, an African American man named Bragg Williams was burned at the stake in Hillsboro, Texas.
