Who's A Looter Analysis

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In the article “Who’s a Looter” Tania Ralli shows how the perception of different races and cultures stirs confusion. Ralli uses two separate photos taken after Hurricane Katrina to make this comparison. In one photo there’s a black couple seen wading thru the water clutching a case of soda and the caption under the picture states “looting a grocery store”. In the second photo a white couple is seen in the same water holding bags of food and the caption states “After finding food and soda from a local grocery store” “According to Ralli” the contrast of the two photo captions, which to many indicated a double standard at work, generated widespread anger toward the news media that quickly spread the web. In order to validate her argument…show more content…
Even stars such as Kanye West made comments on these photos. He made sure that during a live broadcast of “A concert of Hurricane Relief” that he mentioned “I hate the way they portray us in the media,” he said. “You see a black family, it says they’re looting. You see a white family, it says they’re looking for food.” I feel that everyone will have their own opinions regarding their perceptions of the captions of the photos but no one will ever know the true meaning behind the words. Another great aspect of this article is that she mentioned the use of photos. With that I was able to visualize the pictures and come up with my own opinion. For those who actually saw the pictures also were able to draw conclusions for themselves. For example someone can tell you something time and time again but without seeing it for yourself you can’t come to any kind of conclusion about what it is they are saying. The best way to conclude my response would be by saying that people should really think about the repercussions of something before they do it. In this article it was captioning for a photo but this is truly a life lesson because as Ralli stated these two news photographs ricocheted through the internet and set off a debate about race and the news media in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I just don’t think that was the time to have made those statements. What about the victims and there feelings, the bottom line is that it was very inconsiderate. As for Ralli she really has done a good job in showing both sides of the

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