Racism in Katrina Coverage

http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thatsracist0bm.gif , which sparked http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement .
Once the imageshack dies, you'll be able to look at the picture captions in question on the second site.

Basically, it's two similar pictures of NO flooding victims wading through water carrying food/water.  One of the pictures has white people, one black.  The one with the whites refers to them as having "found" food/water in a grocery store; the latter refers to the black man as having "looted" the food/water from a grocery store.  Interesting word choice.

"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."

This could also be a blatant lie just to fuel the fire currently  under kneegrows. A racist with a voice is a dangerous thing. Thats why i think they should all be silenced.

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