PCL LinkDump bringt einen interesantes Link über die über die Unruhen in Watts. Wen diese Zeit, das Denken dieser Zeit und die Umstände die zu diesen Unruhen führen konnten interessiert sollte auf alle Fälle „A Journey Into The Mind of Watts“ von Thomas Pynchon lesen.

„Why is everybody worrying about another riot--haven't things in Watts improved any since the last one? A lot of white folks are wondering. Unhappily, the answer is no. The neighborhood may be seething with social workers, data collectors, VISTA volunteers and other assorted members of the humanitarian establishment, all of whose intentions are the purest in the world. But somehow nothing much has changed. There are still the poor, the defeated, the criminal, the desperate, all hanging in there with what must seem a terrible vitality. (…) Everything seems so out in the open, all of it is real, no plastic faces, not transistors, no hidden Muzak, or Disneyfied landscaping, or smiling little chicks to show you around. Not in Raceriotland. (…)“

Den Pynchontext gibt es bei dem San Narcisco College. Dort wird eine sehr gute Thomas Pynchon Seite geführt, wenn auch nicht alle Links funken.

update: „An ex-radical (maybe he still is) living around my parts, Pun Plamondon, wrote a book on his life with a great inside look at the Detroit riots. He was there with John Sinclair, White Panthers, MC5, etc. Detroit was poised to become the Midwest US's hippie heart, but the riots radicalized and drove out these groovy people.“

Here's a link to a look at Pun: Pun Kommentar geliehen von PCL LinkDump :-)