Looting a rascist term NO Someone added the follwong to the header of the article The term looting has been depicted in some quarters as an intrinsically racist term as it seems to have been applied more frequently to the behavior of African Americans than to that of white people with the following source While I do indeed concur that the article describes a rescist application of terms I ABSOLUTELY disagree with the claim that this validates the usage of the term looting as intrinsically rascist While the medium did use the word looting in a rascist context this does not mean that looting is intrinsically rascist Looting has a connotation that is by most accounts negative This negative connotation was used in the describtion of the activities of a black youngster who was doing the same thing as white people while what these white people where doing was described with a word with a positive or at least neutral connotation finding In this particluar article the context of the usage of the word looting is rascist not the word itself