Feel the need to talk about the pic that was in Craccum this week



Everyone has been loving to point of the "blatent" racism of these captions, and how racism is always here, etc etc.

A few facts about looting. Breaking a window and stealing DVD players and stereos is looting. Finding some food in the street is not. What can we see from these photos? A black guy with a huge rubbish bag loaded with food (its floating afterall), and another with two white people with a loaf of break and a coke. Still, whats the diff between the "looting" and the "finding"?

The photos in question were taken by two different photographers, and when uploading/distributing photographers, the photographers generally supply a caption. The photographer of the two white people has said:

One the other hand, the photographer of the black male who was supposedly "looting" has said he witnessed the people in his images looting a grocery store, and thats why he wrote looting in the caption.


A little more research and independent analysis would be nice in future articles...

You are asking for accuracy and balance?
Or perhaps you seek a high level of journalism...

You do realise this is Craccum dont you?

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If you want more info on the REAL NO

go here

www.livejournal.com/~interdictor

Its the blog of the one guy that had internet in NO during and after the hurricane.

He describe everything you could possibly want to know about how shit went down.

People are always ready for a bargain, it's how willing they are driven to get it that contributes to looting. I believe that shooting the looters is justified as a state of emergency has been declared and drastic measures must be taken to ensure civil order.

yeah but killing people when they try to eat? picture yourself in their shoes...remember you should never laugh at someone unitl you've walked a mile in their shoes...cos then your a mile away and have their shoes...

It's not usually the items of necessity that they loot. 9/10 out off ten after a natural disaster in a Western country, looters go after the big items that they can't afford (in the Third World, they go after just about anything). With anarchy rampant during that time, the wide circulation of firearms make the area extremely volatile.

It was absolutely necessary to declare marshal law and clamp down on violent looters and overdue criminals, this is not just an American government thing as other countries would have done the same.

aye beg to differ.

Where else but America would you be able to loot GUN shops?

Not here, aye dont think aye have ever seen a gun shop in NZ

Therefore you wouldnt really need military force and the killing that follows.

aye work next to a gun shop........

A portion of any sufficiently large population in that kind of situation is going to start doing crazy shit. A brutal order is better than no order at all.

Damn right, especially in tough times where there are people to to rescue and care for and the whole area is waist deep in sewage, the last thing you want is some bloody gunbattle happening around you.

What is it called when hispanics are doing it? looting or finding food?

taco-bell employees on a lunch break

Not only has the post-flooding area become a breeding ground for disease, it has also turned into a breeding ground for violence and anarchy.

did a little bit of violence and anarchy every hurt anyone?

Oh yes, there has been deaths by shooting (although under reported due to the media focus on the disaster in a holistic manner). If you love anarchy so much, why not move to the Democractic Republic of Congo and develop a taste for human flesh?