Aaaah, the good ole bad days. The two pictures themselves were a lot more harmless in hindsight then they seemed to be at the time, considering the media was running super ham about looting, and focusing predominately on black americans, which was only naturally going to happen because new orleans is predominately black. When you have a situation where youve lost all your shit, and you need to eat, drink water, of course youre going to jack the shit if necessary. Where the fuck else where they gonna get it from. As for other looting that happened at the time, whatever, shit happens, and there will always be those of the poor and disenfranchise who will use a disaster like katrina for their own benefit.
The fear mongering by the media was outlandish, especially when it came to the superdome, where there were rumors of mad people getting killed, raped, etc, and it wasnt true. Little discussion on the black men almost murdered by WHITE vigilantes, and was not obsessed over by the media, and a few other stories similar.
Federal hate crime charges filed in Katrina shooting of African-Americans
Yeah, Katrina was a wild time, and a huge cluster fuck. Its funny how its basically a long lost memory now, when at the time it was a MEGA issue, and we got kanyes famous lines to george bush. lol
**More recently, americas favorite sniper, chris kyle who was murdered at a gun range, told a story that he killed 30 people during katrina. That he was sniping them from his roof. He was supposedly taking out thieves and criminals. Of course thats nothing more than one of his other unsubstantiated lies, like his sniper kills, but NO ONE has lit a fire under his ass for saying that. That makes you a fucking murdering maniac if you were doing that. That is nothing to be praised, and yet muricas finest of course ignored their hero just said he murdered people on top of a roof during katrina.
MURICA! Where you can claim you murdered civilians by sniping them from a roof during katrina, and you get to chum it up with conan obrien and promote your shitty movie filled with lies**