Blog#5

 In " Little Scarlet", The Watts riots shocks and gives trouble to Easy, who is able to understand the causes of the riots. It is because the blacks of Los Angeles are so much angry. A lot of them have no jobs, and those who have a job are paid with a smaller wage. The white policemen stop and harass even the most respectable black people. The blacks are treated  like they are inferior to the whites . They start the riots and the riots cause disasters -" People got problems all up and down the street, Officer. Every doorways got some kinda mark on it. People lost their businesses, their jobs. Some little old ladies got to take a bus five miles just to find a store to buy a quarter pound of magarine." 

 Besides, the riots are as bad as a disease, making people lose their fear.-" I wondered if the riots were just one symtom of a disease that had silently infected the city; the virus that made people sudeenly unafraid of the consequences of standing for themselves. For almost a week I had seen groups of angry black men and women go up against armed policemen and soldiers with nothing but rocks and bottles for weapons." However, the auther writes about the riots in a romantic way. " Marianne and I were cut from the same rag. We spoke the same language. And though I  couldn't explain how, I knew that the riots had broken down the barriers between us."