george bush doesn't care about black people.
observe kanye west
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this video was very moving to me. he is obviously physically and emotionally shaken. i have to say that i agree with him.
fuck george bush.
edited to add: it is about race. how many white people did you see on the news broadcasts suffering, dying, or dead in the streets of new orleans? if newscasters could get to new orleans the day the hurricane stopped raping the city why couldn't the government with food and water? if you had nothing... then a natural disaster took that away and you had less... fuck me if you think you wouldn't be looting the hell out of your broken ass city. fuck that...
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Caption 1 under the very dark skinned person: " A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans"
Caption 2under the light skinned person: "Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store..."
AMENDED NOTE:
I posted this picture not to CLAIM Racism - I reposted this because I thought it was an opportunity to examine why certain words were chosen and to question if skin color played any role. But keep in mind that these photographs were taken by 2 different photographer, in two different situations and captioned by 2 different copy-editors at 2 different companies. Had the 2 pictures been taken by the same photographer AND captioned by the same copy editor, then the racial motives behind the copy-editor's word choice could be equivocated.
What's interesting about the the juxtapostion of these two photos is that when compared, one can see how word choice can greatly affect the way a viewer extricates meaning from an image. The nature of comparing 2 items in an analytical world is just that - to get you to critically analyze the photos and astutely pull out larger themes that give insight to other topics that otherwise wouldn't be as apparent.
To inculpate the 2 photographers, 2 copyeditors, and American media for being racist, is not the most cogent claim in this situation. This is not to say that media is not bias when it comes to playing on stereotypes - but the last thing we should do is participate in the supposedly "black versus white" paradigm - America's race problem is much bigger and more complicated than that.
observe kanye west
(it takes a long time to load... be patient)
this video was very moving to me. he is obviously physically and emotionally shaken. i have to say that i agree with him.
fuck george bush.
edited to add: it is about race. how many white people did you see on the news broadcasts suffering, dying, or dead in the streets of new orleans? if newscasters could get to new orleans the day the hurricane stopped raping the city why couldn't the government with food and water? if you had nothing... then a natural disaster took that away and you had less... fuck me if you think you wouldn't be looting the hell out of your broken ass city. fuck that...
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Caption 1 under the very dark skinned person: " A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans"
Caption 2under the light skinned person: "Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store..."
AMENDED NOTE:
I posted this picture not to CLAIM Racism - I reposted this because I thought it was an opportunity to examine why certain words were chosen and to question if skin color played any role. But keep in mind that these photographs were taken by 2 different photographer, in two different situations and captioned by 2 different copy-editors at 2 different companies. Had the 2 pictures been taken by the same photographer AND captioned by the same copy editor, then the racial motives behind the copy-editor's word choice could be equivocated.
What's interesting about the the juxtapostion of these two photos is that when compared, one can see how word choice can greatly affect the way a viewer extricates meaning from an image. The nature of comparing 2 items in an analytical world is just that - to get you to critically analyze the photos and astutely pull out larger themes that give insight to other topics that otherwise wouldn't be as apparent.
To inculpate the 2 photographers, 2 copyeditors, and American media for being racist, is not the most cogent claim in this situation. This is not to say that media is not bias when it comes to playing on stereotypes - but the last thing we should do is participate in the supposedly "black versus white" paradigm - America's race problem is much bigger and more complicated than that.
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phaedrus33:
Smirk, thanks for bringing this to us. Kanye is right: W doesn't care about black people, or the working poor. It's about time someone spread the word. . . so thanks for doing what you've done here.
ash:
wow .. thanks for posting this, I cant fucking believe that!