Watts and Lot

Pynchon references filling a void in the "Bordando el Manto Terrestre" with tapestry made from the girls with heart-shaped faces in Lot 49, and I think he references filling the void, that is the misconnection between whites and blacks in Watts, in the Watts article; blacks only being oppressed because of thousands of years of racism towards them. The girls in the painting are trying to make up the world that surrounds them and because of their facial expressions it seems they are tried by it. The young black children in Watts are trying to overlook all the abuse they recieve and their families have recieved from the Man by going to get jobs but the little man and his little ploys have kept them in the back of every ones minds and cuts into them like glass. They get ignored so often that they have become numb to itfroming being shut down, a false "now" like all the others; thusly they can't even feel the glass in their feet anymore.