One of these things is not like the other...

[Turner]

So you don't see looking at the black person, and assuming the worst, while looking at the white person, and assuming the best, isn't wrong in some way?

 

[Stapel]

So you don't see looking at the black person, and assuming the worst, while looking at the white person, and assuming the best, isn't wrong in some way?

Yes that is very wrong!

But so far I haven't seen anyone doing so! Did you?
If yes, please inform me who that was!

 

[JohnRM]

Does anyone else notice that the woman in the picture is hispanic, not Caucasian white. Regardless, these are two different stories by two different news agencies. Anyone who sees racist intent, here, is merely looking for trouble. Find me two stories by the same news agencies showing this same discrepancy in terminology, and I will sound a different tune.

 

[Turner]

Yes, in the pictures.

Now, probably - almost certainly - those were different editors. But still, to call the black person a looter and the white person 'surviving' and slap those two images together makes me think that the editor in question is racist. Because they thought the worst for the black person, and the best for the white person. The format is sufficently simular that it looks at first glace to be from the same source. So now we have the blogger putting the images together to suggest to people that the editor(s) of the site are racist.

 

[Urederra]

I'd prefer to see a picture where people is helping others to recover from the disaster. No matter if they are black or white.

I remember when the last tsunami in the pacific happened, the USA was the country that most help gave. I simply think that the people from USA that helped in the tsunami were black and white (and other races too) (More white than black, I assume, but just because there are more white people than black people in the USA)

Given the circumstances, I would have taken food from a store, either beer or soda would be fine. But I would only call "loot" if somebody takes non food goods, such a DVD or a stereo system.

 

[JohnRM]

I'd prefer to see a picture where people is helping others to recover from the disaster. No matter if they are black or white.

I remember when the last tsunami in the pacific happened, the USA was the country that most help gave. I simply think that the people from USA that helped in the tsunami were black and white (and other races too) (More white than black, I assume, but just because there are more white people than black people in the USA)

Given the circumstances, I would have taken food from a store, either beer or soda would be fine. But I would only call "loot" if somebody takes non food goods, such a DVD or a stereo system.

Well, again, these were two different new agencies, so to say that there was racist intent is just moronic.

Furthermore, of course the U.S.A. gave the most help. We almost always do.

 

[Mise]

What's strange is not calling the black man a looter, but calling the white girl a "finder". How cunning she was to find bread in a grocery shop...

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Beer should not be left to spoil. If "looters" prevent that, all the best to them

 

[Urederra]

Well, again, these were two different new agencies, so to say that there was racist intent is just moronic.

Furthermore, of course the U.S.A. gave the most help. We almost always do.

I haven't said that the editor was racist

 

[CurtSibling]

People are suffering in the giant swimming pool called New Orleans, while the posters here all try hunt racial phantoms on a blog...

In the words of Mel Brooks - "What a world!"

 

[frekk]

Beer is a good choice in the circumstances. It's drink and food rolled into one, right?

The Egyptians built the pyramids on a diet of beer. It's got alot of calories, which is good if you are in a really bad situation (that's why they ration food in really desperate situations based on caloric intake).

Bread is probably a bad choice. It is subject to getting wet, molding etc, in those kinds of conditions. And modern sliced breads are not really going to help you survive a starvation situation very well, people who used to live on bread were eating big thick loaves of rye etc. You'd be better off with chocolate bars.

 

[King Alexander]

So the two different news editors conspired to do this?

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice it was from different online-news papers: I just read it quickly and thought it was from the same editor.
@Stapel: I hope, my answer covers you, also.

So you don't see looking at the black person, and assuming the worst, while looking at the white person, and assuming the best, isn't wrong in some way?

Yes, it is wrong: maybe, it shows a certain degree of unconscious racism.

 

[CurtSibling]

Everyone is racist in some way. If you say you are not, I deem you a liar.

Let's draw a line under that and move on.

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[Stapel]

Everyone is racist in some way. If you say you are not, I deem you a liar.

Let's draw a line under that and move on.

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We all tend to think according to lines of prejucism.
That's not always a bad thing per se, but can lead to nasty situations every once in a while.

 

[CurtSibling]

Indeed - !
We cannot ignore the over-riding mindsets of our cultures...
Although we do not have to agree with them.

For example:
Many get the impression that most Englishmen hate the French...
But closer inspection finds that on the individual level this is not true.

So the racialistic macro-view does not hold up to logic.

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[Hitro]

For example:
Many get the impression that most Englishmen hate the French...
But closer inspection finds that on the individual level this is not true.

In fact, the whole concept of thinking "the English" do this and "the French" do that is the very core concept of racism.

 

[CurtSibling]

In fact, the whole concept of thinking "the English" do this and "the French" do that is the very core concept of racism.

Being from the UK myself, I think your observation proves my point without doubt.

 

[Hitro]

Being from the UK myself, I think your observation proves my point without doubt.

What?

 

[nonconformist]

The English are different to the French, culturally.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Does anyone else notice that the woman in the picture is hispanic, not Caucasian white.

Well, sorry but one of the thing I've always found the most funny in the US racial conception of the society is the fact hispanics and "Caucasian white" are put in two distinct categories.

Regardless, these are two different stories by two different news agencies. Anyone who sees racist intent, here, is merely looking for trouble. Find me two stories by the same news agencies showing this same discrepancy in terminology, and I will sound a different tune.

That is true. I agree with you. The problem is that those merchandises were ruined for the grocery store anyway. He couldn't sell them anymore after a flood. As such, it's not really lootings as nothing is ransacked, but it's not really findings too as that stuff has been "found" in a grocery store.

The point other people are doing in this thread is that in an in-between situation, it's not at random a journalist assumed the worst in the case of a black guy and another journalist, from another news agency, assumed the best in the case of a white guy.

Personally, I don't know... however, you must admit it's striking obvious that this is extremely shocking when you see both image one after the other.