Watts article

[barbara100]

he doesn't say that whites don't fail or get sick and die; he says they're not "concerned" with it. they're distracted and their streets are quiet, their schools are funded, they have jobs and health plans, and life is good before they die. 


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MalignD at aol.com 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  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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