Let us call the two parties A and B. B's property or treasure, B's
heritage, B's right, is adjacent, or appears to be adjacent or is declared to be adjacent — adjacency is a phenomenally flexible term,
subject to interpretation according to what is deemed to he adjacent by the powerful covetor; B's thing which is B's by rights, by inheritance, becomes in its adjacency an object
of passionate desire, an obsessive craving, on the
part of a more powerful A.
However, given the long journey
of reclaiming your
heritage and ethnic self - awareness, it seems that your having witnessed the 1965 Watts riot, at age ten, made a very profound impression, could you explain the experience and describe how it has colored your worldview, which eventually became an integral
part of your
subject matter?