In this article, “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?”, the authors, Cheryl Harris and Devon Carbado, are communicating to the audience that racism still persists in the United States. The example the authors used to communicate this idea consisted of two pictures: the first picture of a young African American man, and the other picture of a white male and female. The picture of the black male carrying a big plastic bag is captioned as, “…walks through chest-deep flood water after looting a grocery store…” (Harris, Carbado 524) and the picture of the white male and female are captioned as, “…wade through chest-deep waters after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store…” These two pictures, published in different presses, have caused a controversy
