The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84217   Message #1555636
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Sep-05 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black looters, white finders
Subject: RE: BS: Black looters, white finders
Both pictures are still there on the "The Age" site I linked to in that last post. And the caption from that site which I included in that post very clearly identified which was AFP and which was AP.

"I still fail to understand the fuss about this." In a situation where the official line is that there will be "zero tolerance" for "looters", and a shoot-to-kill policy, the distinction between "looting" and "finding" makes rather a difference. And the indication in this captions that for at least some people that distinction might rest on the colour of a person's skin is pretty disturbing.