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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. A skillful autopsy of the 1965 Watts riot in Los Angeles performed by a Los Angeles newspaperman...
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. A skillful autopsy of the 1965 Watts riot in Los Angeles performed by a Los Angeles newspaperman...
...southeast side, all the elements of racial violence were present: rat-ridden housing, usurious white shopkeepers, broken black families, humiliating welfare-office routines, tough cops, kids with a yen to loot and lash out, and the random spark of a clumsy arrest. In this meticulously researched reconstruction, Robert Conot, 38, a Los Angeles newspaperman and novelist, shows how all those elements combined to produce six days of madness...
Once the riots began, Conot says, violence was turned against not white people but white property. One woman, carrying a TV set from a pawnshop, explained: "It just hit me I been paying $25 a month for three years on a bunch o' furniture that cost me no more than $300 to start with, so the least they can do for me is give me a TV." Conot's characters-from Frye through Williams to the well-meaning but ineffectual welfare workers and Negro intellectuals-all appear beset by a sense of corrosive despair, which rendered them incapable...
...Conot asks: "Who are these people? What is the history of the man left at the bottom?" His answers are incomplete, but important-and dismaying...