white people "find," black people "loot"

Check this out.

I had already been thinking, while watching the TV, that it's really ridiculous to refer to it as "looting" if (1) no stores are open and (2) people have no food, water, or diapers for the baby and (3) emergency services are nowhere to be found. What the hell would you do?

This from two dear friends, activists/organizers who live(d) in New Orleans:

To be honest, we have almost no idea where we will be tomorrow let alone in a week. We are planning our lives one day at a time at this point....We are
thinking about going to Atlanta for a while or Detroit. Not sure. We've just started talking about this.

We know we lost everything. But we are more sad about the loss of our
community. And I'm watching in horror as people wait to [be] rescued. We
still have some friends in the city.

I have nothing to say after that. This is awful.