The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84217   Message #1555495
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Sep-05 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black looters, white finders
Subject: RE: BS: Black looters, white finders
As Wolfgang pointed out, "lootimg" is a loaded term. It appears that taking the things you and your family need from shops and so forth in a distaster is more likely to be called looting" if you are black in America than if you arewhite.

That's not "looting" when it's people doing what they need to do to survive. In fact people have every right to do so. And in fact a moral duty to do so.