to douchebags like Kanye West last night, going on a nationally televised ===>fundraiser<=== and saying "Bush doesn't care about black people
( Read more... )
Re: Respose to a responsethemarklarSeptember 4 2005, 05:29:16 UTC
Thanks for this well thought response Roy.
One thing I wanted to mention regarding the deal Kanye West referenced about the AP photos and the captions underneath. Everything I'm referencing can be found at snopes here:
(regarding the picture of the black people) Jack Stokes, AP's director of media relations, confirmed today that [photographer Dave] Martin says he witnessed the people in his images looting a grocery store. "He saw the person go into the shop and take the goods," Stokes said, "and that's why he wrote 'looting' in the caption."
&
(regarding the picture of the white people)
The photographer who took the Getty/AFP picture, Chris Graythen, also posted the reasons behind his caption:
""I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow.""
So it would appear that it was nothing more than these individual photographers being honest about what they truly saw.
Now, with all of that being said and clarified, there is plenty for me to concede. One, that racism does indeed exist. No doubt about it. I also think it's really honest of you to admit that there is a 'little' bit of racism in everybody. To that, I also agree. For me, the way I view it or see it, it's part of the 'condition' of man, the sin nature if you will.
I guess it varies, depending upon the person. I try my best to never have any ill feelings or views of somebody that is not the same color of skin as me for that sole reason alone, to do so would be ....just....stupid. Does that mean I never have? No. Everybody has at some point. I see racism as just yet another way mankind kind of looks to try and prop itself up as being 'better' than somebody else, and however somebody came up with the reason that because the other person is a different color makes them 'not as good' baffles me. But it stuck somehow. Quite unfortunate.
One thing I wanted to mention regarding the deal Kanye West referenced about the AP photos and the captions underneath. Everything I'm referencing can be found at snopes here:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/looters.asp
Here's a couple things from it.
(regarding the picture of the black people)
Jack Stokes, AP's director of media relations, confirmed today that [photographer Dave] Martin says he witnessed the people in his images looting a grocery store. "He saw the person go into the shop and take the goods," Stokes said, "and that's why he wrote 'looting' in the caption."
&
(regarding the picture of the white people)
The photographer who took the Getty/AFP picture, Chris Graythen, also posted the reasons behind his caption:
""I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow.""
So it would appear that it was nothing more than these individual photographers being honest about what they truly saw.
Now, with all of that being said and clarified, there is plenty for me to concede. One, that racism does indeed exist. No doubt about it. I also think it's really honest of you to admit that there is a 'little' bit of racism in everybody. To that, I also agree. For me, the way I view it or see it, it's part of the 'condition' of man, the sin nature if you will.
I guess it varies, depending upon the person. I try my best to never have any ill feelings or views of somebody that is not the same color of skin as me for that sole reason alone, to do so would be ....just....stupid. Does that mean I never have? No. Everybody has at some point. I see racism as just yet another way mankind kind of looks to try and prop itself up as being 'better' than somebody else, and however somebody came up with the reason that because the other person is a different color makes them 'not as good' baffles me. But it stuck somehow. Quite unfortunate.
Love you too bro.
Reply
Leave a comment