Black
Looters, White Finders - Is The Media Racially-Biased About
Hurricane Katrina?
Long
Beach, CA
(BlackNews.com) - It's no question that there is massive looting
going on in the gulf coast area by white and black Americans.
People of all colors are doing what they can to survive.
But why
is the mainstream media saying that the Black people are looting
supplies, and that the white people are finding supplies?
A recent
report from DiversityInc.com found one picture by an AFP/Getty
Images photographer and another by The Associated Press (AP)
- and each had a different caption when published.
The
AFP/Getty photo shows two white people with food, with
the caption that they were "finding" bread and soda
from a grocery store. However, the AP photo shows a
black person with some food, with the caption saying
he had just finished "looting" a grocery store.
Dante Lee of BlackNews.com, comments, "I've seen this
variation several times, and it certainly reveals that
the mainstream media is indeed racially-biased."
Pat Means of Turning Point Magazine, says, "The media
must be careful in its labeling of people who are simply
trying to survive. The media can not practice racism,
when everyone is doing the same thing."
Others agree that the media is definitely targeting
African-Americans to make them look worse than they
already do.
Here's an interesting comic strip by Keith Knight that
brings truth to the situation:
Comic
Courtesy of BlackNews.com
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