"Rich White Folks" is another literary milestone in the tradition of "Roots." The grandson of a former central Texas slave, tells his own, very personal story about growing up Black in America during the 1940's and 50's.
"Rich White Folks" is a unique, heart-warming story, that at times will cause you to laugh out loud, at other times shed tears, and will often show you how a third-grade-educated father struggles to forge a life-path for his first born son. Rich White folks were the standard of excellence that father used to align his son's future life-path.
The Author's odyssey from a one-room, segregated school in a small town in southeast Missouri to a degree in Mathematics is a journey of faith and risk-taking on the road to the American Dream.
"Rich White Folks" is a feel good book that makes you a witness to how an off-the-wall, Black kid, from the other side of the tracks, chooses an unlikely pair of heroes to emulate and uses that choice to push himself to become an achievement-driven American Dream chaser.