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jack_ryder ([personal profile] jack_ryder) wrote2005-09-06 09:25 am

Katrina, again

[from Boing Boing] Jabbor Gibson - hero or looter?

I'm saying hero.

[identity profile] chrisbarnes.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Heroic looter, perhaps? :-)

I can't help wondering: if he was white - say, a young pretty white woman - would the story instead be about a heroic young lady who commandeered a bus and saved her neighbourhood? Under the circumstances, it beggars belief that there's a chance he'll be in trouble for taking that bus.

I'm sure that sense will prevail, but it's just weird that they're even talking about the possibility he'll get into trouble.