Originally Posted by texxasco

Nope.... Why would it? The city's population is approximately 80% black, so what are the odds that if you are looking to photograph looters in action that would find black people doing so? On the flip side of the coin, if you saw whiet folks coming out of a place of business, a business which is not open... just like the business in the photo below, and obviously carrying merchandise out of the store....would it be considered racist to publish THAT photo?



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)



Ok... Are we missing something? There's people in the photo, carrying out merchandise from a business that is not open for business. That's looting. The people in the photo are black. So what? What is racist about it? It sounds as though the caption below the photo is pretty accurate wouldn't you say? I'd say so myself.