Watts article

[MalignD at aol.com]

And, by the way, should you raise again my calling P's observations callow 
and jejune, here's what I'm talking about.

"... lying much closer to the heart of L.A.'s racial sickness is the 
coexistence of two very different cultures: one white and one black.>>

That would be the case, yes, as it has been everywhere in this country for 
two hundred plus years.

Or this --

"While the white culture is concerned with various forms of systematized 
folly -- the economy of the area in fact depending on it -- the black culture is 
stuck pretty much with basic realities like disease, like failure, violence and 
death, which the whites have mostly chosen -- and can afford -- to ignore.""

-- wherein we're told that whites don't fail or get sick or die or are 
subject to violence and ignore sickness, failure, death, and violence because they 
can afford to -- a statement not only untrue, but nonsensical and illogical as 
well.
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