On the all too human assumption that I'm average (which I'm not) I, who have black family, saw a white woman.
As to conspiracy? No, I see it as lazy frames of reference. The folks at Yahoo haven't set a policy and the guy who wrote the cutline on the black kid is product of a culture which assumes blacks, as a class, are more likely to steal, and so calls it looting.
I don't posit intent, nor yet concerted action. I'm observing a difference.
Now, if you can tell me what the difference is, in those pictures, which makes one looting, and not the other, then things are different, but I sure as hell can't see one.
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Date: 2005-08-30 11:09 pm (UTC)On the all too human assumption that I'm average (which I'm not) I, who have black family, saw a white woman.
As to conspiracy? No, I see it as lazy frames of reference. The folks at Yahoo haven't set a policy and the guy who wrote the cutline on the black kid is product of a culture which assumes blacks, as a class, are more likely to steal, and so calls it looting.
I don't posit intent, nor yet concerted action. I'm observing a difference.
Now, if you can tell me what the difference is, in those pictures, which makes one looting, and not the other, then things are different, but I sure as hell can't see one.
TK