The racist press

[Excrement_Cranium]

Appearently, if you are black, you cannot "find" groceries in the disaster area.

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P.S. Hunter, you can take this you know where.

[zpman]

Nice. Did you notice how that woman is dragging her bread through the contaminated water? She's probably looking for a toaster, lol. Too friggin' funny, but at the same time, horribly tragic. I get your point though. Probably a bit too true.

[d3ft0n3s]

i bet the bitch has a boom box in it.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Boombox? Both pictures talk about coming from a local grocery store. The difference is when the white people went they "found" some bread. The black kid went there and "looted" the joint.

[Arch Stanton]

thats not the caption i saw on cnn for the first photo

apparently people can attach whatever titles they want to ap photos

[PiRaNeTuS]

You might have some sort of legitimate point of contention if those commentaries had both been written by the same author or news organizations. However since they're not, your point is invalid, and means nothing.



And from the writer of the "finding" caption himself:

Jesus, I don't belive how much crap I'm getting from this. First of all, I hope you excuse me, but I'm completely at the end of my rope. You have no Idea how stressful this whole disaster is, espically since I have not seen my wife in 5 days, and my parents and grand parents HAVE LOST THIER HOMES. As of right now, we have almost NOTHING.

Please stop emailing me on this one.

I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow. I wouldn't have taken in, because I wouldn't eat anything that's been in that water. But I'm not homeless. (well, technically I am right now.)


I'm not trying to be politically correct. I'm don't care if you are white or black. I spent 4 hours on a boat in my parent's neighborhood shooting, and rescuing people, both black and white, dog and cat. I am a journalist, and a human being - and I see all as such. If you don't belive me, you can look on Getty today and see the images I shot of real looting today, and you will see white and black people, and they were DEFINATELY looting. And I put that in the caption.

Please, please don't argue symantics over this one. This is EXTREMELY serious, and I can't even begin to convey to those not here what it is like. Please, please, be more concerned on how this affects all of us (watch gas prices) and please, please help out if you can.

This is my home, I will hopefully always be here. I know that my friends in this business across the gulf south are going through the exact same thing - and I am with them, and will do whatever I can to help. But please, please don't email me any more about this caption issue.

And please, don't yell at me about spelling and grammar. Im eating my first real meal (a sandwich) right now in 3 days.

When this calms down, I will be more than willing to answer any questions, just ask.


Thank you all -
-Chris Graythen

[Digital Bliss]

Nice. Did you notice how that woman is dragging her bread through the contaminated water? She's probably looking for a toaster, lol. Too friggin' funny, but at the same time, horribly tragic. I get your point though. Probably a bit too true.

Not funny....

[Digital Bliss]

I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow. I wouldn't have taken in, because I wouldn't eat anything that's been in that water. But I'm not homeless. (well, technically I am right now.)


I'm not trying to be politically correct. I'm don't care if you are white or black. I spent 4 hours on a boat in my parent's neighborhood shooting, and rescuing people, both black and white, dog and cat. I am a journalist, and a human being - and I see all as such. If you don't belive me, you can look on Getty today and see the images I shot of real looting today, and you will see white and black people, and they were DEFINATELY looting. And I put that in the caption.


Thank you all -
-Chris Graythen

So I take it from reading this that you are actually out there? If that is the case I commend you and your actions. People like you make me proud to be human.

[PiRaNeTuS]

So I take it from reading this that you are actually out there? If that is the case I commend you and your actions. People like you make me proud to be human.


No, that isn't me. I was quoting. I wish I was there though, helping. I'm only a few hours away.

[TwoLoud]

man if i could get out there id help, anyone want ot go rebuild N.O with me? lol

but seriously..its one thing to get something to drink and eat, but its another thing to go steal guns and ammo and start houses on fire and steal 50 pair of ugly ass blue nikes...