Posts Tagged ‘racism’
This morning at work, we were listening to offensive things on the internet (as part of a websense install, I swear), and Allen mentioned there was a number you could call to get an ‘inspirational message’ from the KKK. Stupidness ensued and I intoned: “Thanks for calling the KKK. … We then realized that the Hispanic cleaning crew was outside the conference room.
Click for bigger http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/looters.asp The onslaught of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast in late August 2005 brought the phenomenon of looting into the national spotlight once again, including the two new service photographs shown above, both of which were carried by Yahoo! News and other Internet news outlets and showed persons wading through chest-deep water in the New Orleans area with supplies taken from grocery stores. Many viewers noticed the seeming disparity of the darker-skinned subject’s being described in the accompanying caption as “looting a grocery store,” while the lighter-skinned subjects were described as “finding bread and soda from a local grocery store.”
