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hahahaha, I'd say it isn't racism, unless he didn't actually loot the store. Judging by the fact that he has 3 trash bags full of stuff, I'd say he did. Dosen't mean its racist tho, I used to break into cars and steal radio's, and I'm white.
 
The one picture is taken from AFP and the other from AP wires. I believe that the captions are not written by Yahoo itself. Two different caption writers were at work here.

(The one writer was more law-and-order than the other writer. I was watching some footage of the looters with two other people present, and they disagreed with one another about whether looting food after a storm was the correct thing to do, before my own eyes, so expect two writers to have different perspectives here.)
 
after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store
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I think I'm gonna "find" some food in a grocery store too. Why don't they name things what they really are? If they said "after they took bread and soda from a local grocery store", nobody would complain. I hate this politically correct BS.
 
Na, not racism, just a fact of life in the United States. The majority of looters in EVERY such case in my lifetime have been black. Its been caught on video time and time again. In this case there are a load of videos showing throngs of african americans charging out of stores with stuff thats not even survival related. They are filling bags and trash cans with jewelry, clothes, electronics and other stuff and then just floating away with it. heh. Im not sure where they think they are going to keep it but.....

Its just a fact that the inner cities in america are largely full of poor black people. *Some* of them will jump at the chance to loot when the situation presents itself. The downtown area of New Orleans is overwhelmingly black, who would you expect to be looting in these areas? The chinese?

I was in the WTO riots in seattle 7 years ago. I walked around all night just to watch it and the only looting I saw, sometimes 5 feet from me, was on the part of black americans. Even though the population of blacks is low in seattle and it was obvious to everyone who was doing the looting they wouldnt mention it on the news or in the newspapers. Rather than being "racist" people were so hypersensitive to the issue they simply wouldnt mention the word 'black' or 'african-americans'.

There were some in Seattle though who said the media was racist for only showing blacks looting. Heh. I was there, it was the blacks. The white anarchists from Oregon were breaking things and going crazy during the demonstration but then crowds of black youths would run in with bags. The anarchists were rightfully singled out (being white and crazy) as trouble makers but it was left unspoken that it was the black americans who were looting and mugging people.

Our prisons are full of black people for a reason and its not current racism but the legacy of racism from the past. Its the fact that they are poor, undereducated, have an anti-education (white) culture and that criminal activity is the path that many choose. Thats just how it is, it isnt racist to say so or even to film it. There is even a quote from a black man who was watching the looting in New Orleons who said something like, "Its hard to get angry at them, these people are so angry at society they feel this is there chance to get back".
 
However the discussion wasn't if the blacks loot or not. Tamujin was pointing out that while black people "loot" grocery store, white people "find food" in grocery store.
 
OMG...THERES FOOD IN GROCERY STORES?!

Holy crapoli, I had no idea.

And I do find that funny. I believe i'm going to "Find" some electronic equipment from Futureshop. And on the way back, go "Find" some coffee at Starbucks (Which is reproducing like epiletic donkeys right now).
 
Hardclyff said:
However the discussion wasn't if the blacks loot or not. Tamujin was pointing out that while black people "loot" grocery store, white people "find food" in grocery store.

from now on, you are my friend

(you are correct by the way)
 
I think the wide-scale looting by blacks in this case and in previous ones may have led the one caption writer to reflect a larger reality. I have yet to see the video of widescale looting by whites, so again, it seems reasonable that a different caption writer wouldnt have that in mind as he wrote. Personally I dont see anything wrong with taking food in this disaster. The police are even assisting hotel employees and disaster personel in taking food and medicine from stores. Given the history here I can see how a white person holding two bags of bread gets one title and a black person with a garbage bag full of stuff gets another.

Perception is reality. If blacks are running in and out of stores with bags and tvs all day, then yes, you are likely to find that blacks leaving stores with garbage bags full of stuff are generally labelled "looters". Generally that would be accurate as well.
 
If you want to call every single person in the city currently scratching around for food a "looter" then thats fine. I think there are different categories for hungry people trying to survive a disaster and people taking advantage of the situation to steal luxury items. There has been video of blacks raiding a supermarket where the commentators were understanding of their hunger and didnt call them "looters". Thats what I believe as well.

If you want to look at it in terms of ultimate truth then the photographers cant even know if those people looted anything at all. They couldnt see into the store from the helicopter, maybe all those people left money on the counter or maybe the clerk is still there in 3 feet of water, making change.

In the real world though we make assumptions to fill in the gaps of our knowledge. Based on the volume of video showing blacks looting luxury items, I dont see anything wrong with calling a black guy with a garbage bag full of stuff a looter. It may be accurate, it may not, but in the world of probability, its a safe bet.

But if you want to call the whites with the bread looters too, thats fine. Just acknowledge the difference between hitting jewelry stores and bread aisles.

Its easy to sit back and see two pictures and decide that "racism" is afoot but you are missing the context of the story. The context is that widespread looting of mechandise by blacks is underway as we speak.
 
however you don't know what the white guy has in his backpack? what if the woman is carying the bread because he has a dvd player in the backpack?

if the black guy is a looter then the 2 whites are too.
 
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