i checked all that out, AFP has another article in which they call black people looters but not white people.
also, the explanation is a load of crap. there are plenty of cases where black people were taking stuff 'floating down the river' and they're still called looters. my opinion is that white people went out in search for an explanation so they don't feel guilty for being a white, a common reaction, and the second they found something (the AP/AFP confusion in one example of 'racist' news reporting) they dropped the issue and did the usual backlash against black people we always do when they complain about racism.
EVERYONE in america (should) know that this the NORM of news reporting. if you call the police one of the first thing they ask you is if the person was black or not. news reporting ALWAYS says if people are black and almost NEVER says if they are white. there is absolutely positively 100% the normal reaction against black people there always is in american reporting. that one example was a mix up, but there are more that prove it, and regardless, yahoo news should have made the effort to see that sort of mix up being offensive to people and fixed it before they printed it.
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also, the explanation is a load of crap. there are plenty of cases where black people were taking stuff 'floating down the river' and they're still called looters. my opinion is that white people went out in search for an explanation so they don't feel guilty for being a white, a common reaction, and the second they found something (the AP/AFP confusion in one example of 'racist' news reporting) they dropped the issue and did the usual backlash against black people we always do when they complain about racism.
EVERYONE in america (should) know that this the NORM of news reporting. if you call the police one of the first thing they ask you is if the person was black or not. news reporting ALWAYS says if people are black and almost NEVER says if they are white. there is absolutely positively 100% the normal reaction against black people there always is in american reporting. that one example was a mix up, but there are more that prove it, and regardless, yahoo news should have made the effort to see that sort of mix up being offensive to people and fixed it before they printed it.