Flickr user dustin3000 uploaded two similar news photos; each of a flood victim in New Orleans wading in chest high water with boxes and bags.

Caption 2under the light skinned person: “Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store…”
There’s so much controversy surrounding this now….

I’ve read the things that other people have to say….and well…it’s kind of disturbing…

JNOR cityboy says:
Now thats just rediculous. Its telling and transparent, but rediculous.

fixbuffalo says:
please…AFP doesn’t use the word “looting”…it’s not a racial thing…get real!

And from the man himself…

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
Update: Photographer believes couple did “find” groceries
Sports Shooter
Chris Graythen wrote the caption for his photo of two hurricane survivors with bread and soda. “I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not ‘looted’ them in the definition of the word,” he writes. “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.”

smh…..*throws hands up in the air* *walks out of room*