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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 4 2005, 06:57 PM
Well, I went searching. Interesting stuff I found.
I assumed both pictures were real. I know I saw the one of the 'looter' on CNN.com . I am sure that they did not use the caption that yahoo's website has beside the picture. However, I did find the picture on yahoo news and it does have the same caption.
CNN changed the caption
If you go to the above link you will find some support for my statement about the changing of the caption by CNN.
I also found this picture in the same yahoo news slideshow as the 'looter' picture. It is also an AP photo like the original we've been discussing.
Another looter
There in the foreground you will see Whitey. Whitey is clearly accused of looting by the caption.
**edited to change final picture link to the picture and text page, not just the image location.
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Once again, Snopes to the rescue.
Yes the photos and the captions are correct. Those captions and pictures did appear together. Was this racist? Unknown. That's an opinion and unless you can get inside the heads of the caption writers, cannot be proven one way or another.
However, the photographer of the LOOTING picture said he witnessed these people breaking into the store and take the food. The photographer of the FINDING picture said he's unsure where the people got the food. He didn't witness them take anything from anywhere. He did say that he saw loaves of bread floating down the street from stores demolished by the storm... they could have just as likely picked up the food.
I think it takes more than two pictures side by side to prove the point. I will say that throughout this ordeal I've seen black people demonized and white people canonized. Others may have seen differently. But I can see why Kanye was upset. Wrong time? Perhaps. But sometimes the mouth engages before the brain kicks into gear... Kanye readily admits that he lets his emotion get the better of him.