Some apologist are claiming that the “looting” pics from AP and AFP were consistent with the different agencies… but that is not true
AP DOES NOT CALL WHITES LOOTERS
AP – Tue Aug 30, 8:10 PM ET As one person looks through their shopping bag, left, another jumps through a broken window, while leaving a convenience store on the I-10 service road south, in Metairie, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane 
AP – Tue Aug 30,11:31 AM ET A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Is the person in the second picture a man? How do they know? I sure can’t tell…
In any case, that blue bag under his.her arm looks suspiciously like diapers to me….
Anyone who says these two pictures do not highlight how racist we are in the country is either blind, a fool or both.
“shopping bag”?? Oh, yeah, I’m sure she left $$ on the counter — and by the by, I do not see a THING in the guy’s hand who is jumping through the window — do ya think he’s got things stuffed down his pants?
Now run the counter argument by me again? They aren’t racist why?
Looters hit a drug store in the French Quarter district of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina. Fresh floods, fires and looting rode in the destructive wake of Hurricane Katrina, deepening a humanitarian crisis that left hundreds feared dead and sections of New Orleans submerged to the rooftops.(AFP/James Nielsen)
AFP/Getty Images – Tue Aug 30, 3:47 AM ET Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
I just want to scream at people who don’t see the fucken institutional racism displayed …so the one guy ‘looted’ a grocery store while the other picture has the people ‘finding’ food..ooooooook. And anyway who gives a shit if people are taking food from those stores anyway…all reports are of people with no food/water etc and I doubt that the stores will salvage anything or be able to reuse stuff from those stores..right so I’d hope that whatever can be ‘found’ by people could be put to some use.
I’m not saying that looting doesn’t take place as a criminal activity but ‘looting’ for food or liquids to prevent dehydration wouldn’t really be on my list of a major crime…especially as this is such a clusterfuck as far help getting to people.
Yes, yes and yes.
Would it that our press would cover the brazen, 5-year looting by Bush and Co.
This just makes me sick.