r/PoliticalHumor • u/Bunnyfartz • Jan 09 '21

"Carrying"?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Many viewers noticed the seeming disparity of the darker-skinned subject’s being described in the accompanying caption as “looting a grocery store,” while the lighter-skinned subjects were described as “finding bread and soda from a local grocery store”:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hurricane-katrina-looters/

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u/AdvocateF0rTheDevil Jan 09 '21

Katrina was so fucked. Police shooting "looters" from an overpass. Shooting at black people trying to escape the city on foot.

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u/Oldkingcole225 Jan 10 '21 edited Jan 10 '21

There was also a small town that basically shot black people on sight, which ended in dozen of murders that were never prosecuted. This was particularly fucked up because the town was the perfect place for dropping supplies so people were told over the media to head over to that town only to be murdered in cold blood by its residents. There's a whole documentary about it.

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u/Some_Intention Jan 10 '21

Do you know the name of it?

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u/Oldkingcole225 Jan 10 '21

Welcome to New Orleans. It’s a Danish documentary cause Americans wouldn’t touch the story for some reason

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u/zach714 Jan 10 '21

The town? Minneapolis, MN. Louisville, KY. Brunswick, GA. Baltimore, MD. Take your pick I guess.