{"id":255,"date":"2005-08-31T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","slug":"looting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Looting and Finding in the wake of Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend, Tom, observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was looking through some of the horrible pictures of the hurricane Katrina aftermath and I noticed something: White folks wading through the water carrying food and supplies simply &#8220;found&#8221; them at a local store. The black folks however, &#8220;looted&#8221; the local store.  Check it out:<\/p>\n<p>Black people &#8220;loot&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photo\/050830\/480\/ladm10208301530%3E\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photo\/050830\/480\/ladm10208301530%3E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>White people &#8220;find&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photo\/050830\/photos_ts_afp\/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photo\/050830\/photos_ts_afp\/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coincidence? Maybe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I noticed today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/08\/30\/black_people_loot_wh.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> picked up on this as well. See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45&#038;aid=88106\">Romenesko<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2005\/09\/01\/photo_controversy\/\">Salon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend, Tom, observes: I was looking through some of the horrible pictures of the hurricane Katrina aftermath and I noticed something: White folks wading through the water carrying food and supplies simply &#8220;found&#8221; them at a local store. The black folks however, &#8220;looted&#8221; the local store. Check it out: Black people &#8220;loot&#8221; http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photo\/050830\/480\/ladm10208301530%3E White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}