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Friday, September 2nd, 2005

…is everything.

Snopes offers some to the imbroglio over differently captioned photos in which a white man was described has having “found” some food, and a black man was described as having “looted” it.

Turns out, both photographers saw what had happened before they snapped their shutters. And so, politically incorrect as it may be, both captions were correct.

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  1. #1 |  digamma.net - notes |  September 3rd, 2005 at 10:32 am

    Snopes Is Wrong on Racism

    Snopes excuses the infamous Yahoo photos in which captions refer to a white couple as “finding” bread and soda and a young black man as “looting” a grocery store. Their key defense is that the latter is from the Associated Press and the former is …

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