TPPM Watts: (9) Culture clash?

[Otto]

I think this misunderstanding is inevitable. It has to do with the fact that
the white middle-class isn't exposed to those "terms of strict reality" like
"disease, (...) failure, violence and death" which the overwhelming part of
the blacks cannot afford to ignore. But it has been (it is?) American
reality:
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/jacob/luck.htm

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btopenworld.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: TPPM Watts: (9) Culture clash?


> "The two cultures do not understand each other, though white values are
> displayed without let-up on black people's TV screens ..."
>