Watts article

[Otto]

>
> He says whites have "chosen--and can afford--to
> ignore" disease, violence, failure, and death.
>
> The statement ignores that not all whites have money,
> which is why I called the statement dishonest; i.e.,
> in the context of the article, propagandist.  The
> rest--that anyone can choose or afford to ignore
> disease, failure, and death is absurd.
>

He never says that all whites are well-off. But even as a poor white you're
not black. Middle-class neighbors won't put their garbage to your front
door, the cops won't call you "boy" or "nigger" and most important, you're
not as easily killed as a young black. Go look at the statistics how many
blacks are waiting for their execution.

"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."

He says here explicitly ("mostly") in this brilliantly formulated sentence
(which is why it's on my favorites-list of the Watts-article) that not all
whites have chosen or can afford to ignore those facts of reality, doesn't
he?

Otto