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Old 09-02-2005, 09:17 AM
Honeykiss1974 Honeykiss1974 is offline
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Re: Is race an issue?

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Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
I'm watching Primetime and they mentioned 2 photos and how they protrayed the looters. One shows and African American male wading through water with a bag and the caption mentions him looting. Another pictures shows a White male and female and says that they "found" food.


Why the difference? Did they both not take items that didn't belong to them? A large number of the people who are left in N.O. are Black/poor and have been protrayed like animals in my opinion. In desperate times who knows what you'd do to stay alive...
On another message board I frequent, someone said that the black man MUST be looting because he had a garbage bag that seemed to be full of stuff. What the......

So one is still presumed "looting" because he has a garbage bag instead of a nice Jansport backpack? So during a major crisis, it is the type of bag a person has that will make the difference between being labeled a criminal vs a victim? Lord help us all....or me rather because I haven't owned a backpack in years.

I shake my head at people sometimes.
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