Inside Edition subtly equated poverty with criminality.

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I don't even know why I even watched this show. They're doing Katrina coverage. They showed pictures of a black family getting arrested for stealing a big truck and driving it out of town (they showed two little kids with their hands in plastic cuffs behind their back).

They cut away to the reporter at the end of the story standing in front of a cash machine. The reporter said, "even people with money are having trouble since the cash machines aren't working."

The implication was subtly, that the people they just showed were poor (because they were black) and they were criminals, and then OTHER people who have money are having troubles (but not descending into criminality?) because they don't have access to their money.

I might be misreading this, but the contrast sounded strange -- on the one hand black, poor and criminal, on the other hand people with money are troubled by inconvenience of not having access to cash (but not criminal).

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1. racism is coming out hard n/t