Media Bias of a Different Color

When black people chest deep in fetid water snag something from a grocery store, it's called looting.

When white people chest deep in fetid water snag something from a grocery store, it's called finding.

Yeesh.

(Via Pandagon, as part of a great post by Amanda on how Katrina's victims are being primed for the blame game as a distraction from potential political fallout.)

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