The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84217 Message #1557052
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Sep-05 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black looters, white finders
Subject: RE: BS: Black looters, white finders
You're really thinking the photographers would have jumped down into the water from whatever place the photo was taken (a helicopter? a high builidng?) and carried out some kind of on the spot interview?
As I read it, this isn't about pointing a finger at some picture editor or agency.
The point is, just imagine you flashed those photos in front of people of your acquaintance, and asked them what they saw.
If the kind of racial preconceptions that skew the way we interpret the world were just confined to out and out racists, that would be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately they ain't.