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Looters or Survivors!

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

A friend brought this to my attention, and I found it interesting
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830192654_pfjuxrjq_photo1;_ylt=AtRg2FKqNemcYPSV2Vww_NpiWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20-

from Michael K. Watts, Freelance Journalist & Music Critic

Below are captions and links to a series of images of people, alleged looters, wading through the flooded New Orleans streets.  The first image is from AFP/Getty and depicts white people, and the remaining images are from AP and depict blacks.  Note how blacks are depicted as "looters" and how the whites are depicted theoretically as survivors.  AP also barely varies from its wording of these captions.  Clearly, there are issues here. 

Photo 461
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. As Hurricane Katrina tore across the US Gulf coast, leaving snapped communications in its wake, Internet web logs offered a unique and often dramatic insight into the storm’s destructive fury and aftermath.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)

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A woman walks through chest-deep water as she heads to loot a grocery store in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/480/ladm11608301734;_ylt=Auv6o.pNfd6IgHT5Npd0cZJiWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20-

Photo 496
A looter carries a bucket of beer out of a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/480/ladm10908301723;_ylt=Ai6SWgxzju.M4iXjQwQRKT5iWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20-

Photo 517
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Floodwaters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/480/ladm10708301649;_ylt=AtRg2FKqNemcYPSV2Vww_NpiWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20-

Photo 534
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday. (AP/Dave Martin)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/1913/w083049ajpg;_ylt=AoiQ_AIFqDz0C8TGi0TKCSdiWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20-

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