Watching the news w Pynchon yet, able to breathe, luckily.

[alice malice]

But the problem, as Pynchon did not understand when he wrote his Watts
essay or his short story, "The Secret Integration", or as he sent
Benny up to Spanish Harlem, had Sphere hang with the Radical Chic
Fountainheads and Village Hipsters from Suburban Levit Towns, or even
in his tracings of the New Left fringes in Vineland, though he hints
at it in his SL Introduction, finally coming to see that race is not a
problem to be solved, not a political issue or a card to played, but a
class of capital. AGTD, at last, is Pynchon's only work that plums the
question honestly and without ignorance or fear.

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that the door to police work is open from the wars, and the
> current wars, the longest wars, have opened revolving doors, that is,
> soldiers who join police and then return to war and then return to
> police and corrections. So, the abuse of prisoners in the theaters of
> war, and in the abuse of citizens in the prisons here and the same
> with the neighborhoods. Moreover, those that have been to war,
> especially those that have been in the most dangerous areas and jobs,
> are revered by the others and have a sway over the group psychology
> and the culture of the police, so enforcement is emphasized.
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> This has been true since the vets of Vietnam - I don’t know about Korea or prior.  And they bring with them a whole lot of baggage from the mindset they went in with to the PTSD they got while on active duty.
>>
>> http://discoverpolicing.org/find_your_career/?fa=military_veterans
>>
>> Bek
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2014, at 7:56 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You may be right, Mark. I would only add that in NYC a close
>>> examination of the legacy of
>>> Bernard Kerik is worth looking into. The wars, Obama's wars now, are
>>> revolving doors for soldiers who work in NYC corrections, and on the
>>> police department. While the so-called progressive mayor disappointed
>>> most of his supporters with his appointment of Bratton, the recent
>>> resignations, "retirements" of Black and Latino leadership is even
>>> more frightening...the recruiting of whites from the suburbs, and the
>>> placement of rookies in the toughest assignments (for example in the
>>> Pink) is an other problem, a union, seniority problem that has an
>>> apartheid impact on housing, education, courts...etc...so, a complex
>>> web or entrenched power, but the wars, the fucking wars, and the way
>>> the wars are brought home to poor neighborhoods is the major problem
>>> here in NYC.
>>>
>>> David, though awkwardly, is on to something when he speaks of the
>>> body. Matthew Pratt Guterl, in the The Guardian, takes on this issue
>>> recently:
>>>
>>> This fear and fascination with the superhuman black male body is a
>>> longstanding sightline – a “racial script”, as the historian Natalia
>>> Molina calls it – in which a confused, delusional vision of the
>>> dangerous black male body is repeatedly invoked as a reason for some
>>> terrible, violent response. This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric
>>> Garner, and a thousand stories in between. It is a reminder that the
>>> story of King Kong is a metaphor for racial fear. It also points, as
>>> Khalil Gibran Muhammad reminds us, to the myth of the coked-up
>>> criminal, immunized from pain and impossible to bring down. We should
>>> be recognizing that each and every one of these dehumanizing fears is
>>> dangerously – and tragically false – but time and time again, we
>>> refuse to admit it.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> we have read Pynchon's essay on the mind of Watts.
>>>>
>>>> I Repeat that Radney Balko's The Militarization of the Police
>>>> traced the start of SWAT teams to the LAPD as an organizational response
>>>> To those riots.
>>>>
>>>> for 40+ years, and esp since 9/11, the police departments all over the United States
>>>> Have militarized themselves, prepared for " riots" instead of " freedom of assembly",  have allowed o'er the top Jacobean-like revengeful anger to build
>>>> And build until: The Bigfoot cops can choke, gang-up on, beat and shoot at will.
>>>>
>>>> TRP did know exactly when the cops turned. Inherent Vice.
>>>>
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