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while
09-13-2005, 01:14 PM
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The Associated Press caption accompanying the image with a black person says he's just finished "looting" a grocery store. The AFP/Getty Images caption describes lighter skinned people "finding" bread and soda from a grocery store. No stores are open to sell these goods.



New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005 - It's criminal. From what you're hearing, the people trapped in New Orleans are nothing but looters. We're told we should be more "neighborly." But nobody talked about being neighborly until after the people who could afford to leave … left


There are gangs of white vigilantes near here riding around in pickup trucks, all of them armed, and any young Black they see who they figure doesn't belong in their community, they shoot him.


But nobody cares. They're just lawless looters ... dangerous


The hurricane hit at the end of the month, the time when poor people are most vulnerable. Food stamps don't buy enough but for about three weeks of the month, and by the end of the month everyone runs out. Now they have no way to get their food stamps or any money, so they just have to take what they can to survive.


Every day countless volunteers are trying to help, but they're turned back. Almost all the rescue that's been done has been done by volunteers anyway.


here is the real truth, they were watching our in need of help Americans die and suffer because they are afraid of us African Americans and other poor races & it make me mad because these scum just are sitting around while people die and it is sick.


they can't even take care of our affairs here in America, how are they going to help other country's when this place is a hell hole. It made me sick to see Veterans dying and they fault for this country like my dad, & my step brother is now fighting in Iraq & even he called me & said that he feels ashamed & appalled at what he has saw this week from our fake country

Logos
09-13-2005, 02:43 PM
This is a very touchy subject, while, for it is partly dealing with politics, which are not allowed to be discussed on this site as per the Forum Rules. (eg. Iraq)

If politics aren't discussed the topic can stay open. :)

I saw the two images that this article you have posted is referrring to, and no, I also don't think it was very fair to have a black person labled as a `looter' and white people as having `found' some food. Very sad.

blp
09-13-2005, 08:21 PM
I found it very worrying, very strange and very offensive that people started to be condemned for looting so quickly in a situation where they were going to starve and were not being helped. And it does seem to me to be related to race.

amuse
09-13-2005, 08:26 PM
one of my friends has yet to find her brother-in law. last week i was thinking "i hope, if he's without food and water, that he's 'looting.'"

i'm sure many people would've been happy to pay for what they took if they'd had the means - so many of us live paycheck to paycheck, i know that's not reasonable - and would repay the store owners if the chance presented itself, out of sheer gratitude, not even the debt aspect. though who's to say they wouldn't be picked up for robbery. but that's what i'd do, and i'd like to think others would wish to. i would loot to survive, especially when things like bread go moldy anyway, water's so essential, and business owners are going to be able to file for emergency relief. i would want people to help themselves if i were a business owner.

glad to see this topic, while, as well as your cautionary statement, Logos.

baddad
09-13-2005, 10:15 PM
Definately too touchy a subject....

shortysweetp
09-13-2005, 11:25 PM
i dont think that in their situation looting is wrong they need food, but some people arent just looting food they are stealing tvs, shoes, etc. I also think that the reason that some of the volunteers (that are trying to help) are pulling back because they are being shot at. I saw a show on the tv where one (african american) girl was being interviewed and she said that she was ashamed of what was going on there and that she wouldnt move back there even though her home wasnt destroyed or flooded. She said she was going to get her things and move. I truly feel for the victims of Katrina and hope that relief comes to them soon.