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September 01, 2005

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gawdessness

Thanks for the update!

cluttergirl

Yes, I just followed gawdessness's links, and they have taken down the photo of the white people "finding" at the request of the photographer, who actually lives in New Orleans, and says that the food was floating down the street and people were picking it up so it never occured to him to write "looting". I agree that it is irresponsible to write "looted" re someone who is carrying food and drink when people are dying of that, though the photographer of THAT photo may have actually witnessed people breaking into a shop and taking the food, which would be a correct usage of the word "looting". It is unfortunate that these two photos from two different wire agencies, and two different photographers, were juxtaposed with the different words connected to blacks and whites. I do believe however that if those thousands of people in New Orleans had been uppermiddleclass white people in Utah for instance, that they would not be dying for lack of food and water in a stadium for three days. For heaven's sakes, it seems such things could be just dropped by planes and helicopters flying over from nearby states. I do believe classism and racism has a part in this. And someone on a discussion about it (if you follow the photo links, there are sites pointed out about the controversy... the flickr one has both photos) said "why quibble over the difference in wording between find and loot at a time like this". I suggest that when the policy is "shoot to kill" re looting, that is a very important wording and conceptual distinction. Cheers!

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