"Finding" and "looting"
I don't know if boingboing was first to report it, but this story and this story have been making the rounds on irc and forums.
Basically, two different news services, within hours of each other, posted stories about people carrying groceries: One about some white people who "found" some food in a grocery store, and one about a black man who "looted" some food, also from a grocery store.
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UPDATE: Here's what the photographer of the "finding" picture had to say at SportsShooter.com
I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow. I wouldn't have taken in, because I wouldn't eat anything that's been in that water. But I'm not homeless. (well, technically I am right now.)
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I'm always shocked when I hear about such prejudices. In the world I live in - that is, the immediate world, people, etc. I experience and interact with on a day-to-day basis - that just doesn't exist. I guess it's the way I was brought up. This is only one particular (and some might argue relatively harmless) example, but it shows a pattern of thinking that I had hoped we would be rid of by the 21st century.
3:44 PM
motivatedtea:
Well, I wouldn't be too hasty to jump to conclusions.. The stories are from different feeds and different photographers - and there's no telling what either truly saw.
For what it's worth, I wouldn't consider obtaining food in a drowned out area to be looting at all.
2:57 PM
Hey, I just checked out the photos for both stories, but the picture for the white case has been removed by yahoo. This was "at the request of AFP".
Interesting.
-jackal
7:53 PM
who gives a rip for one. They loot, get over it..Kanya can go stick his thumb in his arse and spin for all I care. He and his "people" need to quit with the racism and stop causing problems.
8:47 PM
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