Much has been written by Watts, and we do not seek to echo old views on the subject. However, Watts district is in Los Angeles, where WESTER DESTINY is located, and we believe that our would be glad to hear what our Assistant Editor has to say on the subject. This, briefly, is that the races of the world can and would live in peace if the pressure to mix and integrate were removed.
Year by Year-one might almost say, month by month, racial disturbances in the United States have become so common that the public is in danger of accepting Negro violence as something that is merely routine, something that we have to accustom ourselves to living with in this age of multi-racial policies. Thus the Watts outbreak has already been relegated, in the minds of many, to those posterior recesses of the mind in which unpleasant memories are stored, when they cannot actually be erased altogether.
The urge to remember only that which is pleasant in life, and to forget that which is unpleasant, is doubtless intended by Nature as a boon to mankind-and indeed it is a thing which makes hope and courage possible, which enables new cities to be raised from the ashes of the old. But it also has its weak points. “To be forewarned is to be forearmed,” is an old adage which is only true when we think carefully over the unpleasant symptoms of impending danger, and profit by the advance warning to devise ways and means of averting the trouble ahead In the Watts area of Los Angeles, serious rioting among the Negro residents lasted for a number of days.
In its course, over thirty persons were killed. Amongst the casualties were two small boys, who became the target for some bestial sniper while playing in their own front garden. A thousand more were injured, and two hundred million dollars worth of property was destroyed or stolen.
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