Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Not unless you want to see the picture with the obligatory white guy. It's just a fluff piece.
SAG HARBOR, N.Y.
YOU could say that Morris Reid didn't so much give a party for Tracey L. Brown last weekend as take one ? from a client, a liquor conglomerate, eager to back a series of get-togethers. Such is the nature of Hamptons entertaining that the purpose is not just a fun night out but sometimes to promote an agenda ? in this case, putting certain brands into the hands of the right crowd. And this was the right crowd. Ms. Brown, a lawyer and author, is the daughter of Ronald H. Brown, commerce secretary under Bill Clinton, who died in 1996 in a plane crash in Croatia.
The party was held in the five-bedroom waterfront house belonging to Alma Brown, Ms. Brown's mother. It was built in 1998 in a neighborhood that is a home to many prominent African-Americans, including the lawyer Johnny Cochran; the lifestyle guru B. Smith; Earl Graves Jr., the founder of Black Enterprise magazine; and Susan Taylor, the editor of Essence magazine.
"In the Hamptons, the whites have their place, and this is ours ? we're not all P. Diddy," said Lisa Bonner, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles and once Ms. Brown's classmate at Boston College.