Racist Media Reports on Katrina- Black People Loot, White People Find

The Home of Uncommon Sense ^ | 09/02/2005 | Craig DeLuz

[Craig DeLuz]

Here are two pictures of victims of Hurricane Katrina doing what they have to in order to survive. Both pictures feature people wading through chest high flood waters carrying with them food and water they have taken form local grocery stores. That is about where the similarity ends.

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[faithincowboys]

Please Craig, the disorder and depravity of the people in New Orleans isn't a function of media bias.

[Craig DeLuz]

I agree.

But you can clearly see a bias in how the "disorder and depravity" is reported to the world.

[faithincowboys]

Do you think that black people aren't looting tvs and shooting at rescue workers? I really wish they weren't doing that, but they ARE. Facts are stubborn things.

[Craig DeLuz]

Do you think that white people aren't finding tvs and shooting at rescue workers?
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It bothers me that PEOPLE are doing this stuff! Black or white it's wrong! But let's not call it one thing when black people do it and another when whites do it. It's all crime. With the exception of those who are taking food and basic supplies anyone who is looting is guilty of the same crime.

[faithincowboys]

Actually, I do think that white people aren't finding tvs and shooting rescue workers. I think the looting , by black and white people, of food and drinks is absolutely understandable. It has been black folks, regrettably, who have made it their business to shoot at rescuers and steal luxury items.

[neutrality]

Yawn, the other is from AFP and the other AP. Naturally different reporters as well.

[FreedomNeocon]

RTOFL... nice... a sweeping racist card being played based on a caption of a single photo.

Your logic is flawless.



P.S. Just FYI most would consider foodstuffs (esp perishable) not 'looting', but $120 sneakers, widescreen HDTVs, guns, and 'designer' clothes would be.

[neutrality]

Huh? I was laughing at this idiotic article. I've no idea what your rant even has to do with this thread.

[Interesting Times]

Leftists are desperately trying to pretend that New Orleans' descent into astonishingly brutal anarchy is the result of white racism rather than inner city pathology.

So far, this little graphic is the best they've been able to come up with to support that particular fairy tale.

They're not kidding anybody except themselves.

[faithincowboys]

Where on the same page right?

[FreedomNeocon]

Yeah, sry... I often get confused when hitting the reply button.

As you correctly assumed, we are on the same page and my responce was to the OP.

[spycatcher]

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003454.htm

[ladyinred]

I do not blame any person in that area "looting" for food and water or any thing really needed no matter what color they are. ( For supposedly being "color blind" on the left, they are the first ones who seem to notice color.) I don't think Plasma TV's are a necessity however.

[Interesting Times]

More honesty than I would have expected from Snopes... thanks.

[No Longer Free State]

Apparently the captions were factually correct. From the AP:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/02/national/a152350D17.DTL

"When we see people go into businesses and come out with goods, we call it looting," said Santiago Lyon, AP's director of photography. "When we just see them carrying things down the road, we call it carrying items."

Lyon said the photographer who took Tuesday's photo, Dave Martin, had seen the man go into the store and take out the items.

As for the other photo, Getty said it stood by its caption and its photographer, Chris Graythen, who says the subjects of his photo were simply picking up items floating by in the dank waters.

"These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics," he wrote. "They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow."

[Craig DeLuz]

I've never seen so many conservatives come to the defense of the MSM.

[No Longer Free State]

I'm not defending them. I'm providing their response for consideration. I don't know if I believe this explanation any more than anything else they say, particularly since this is self-serving. Thus the word "apparently" preceding the whole of my post.