Actually, black people "exit". As I posted at BTD:

The same photo of the young man is on the Washington Post photo page, see "Aftermath" tab, and the description does not mention looting, he's simply "wading through chest deep flood waters after exiting a store". Interesting juxtaposition though. Whereas you assume that one editor made the distinction, it could be that there's two different editors. One may call all looters "looters" regardless of race and one calls all "leaving the store" "exiting the store". In other words, this is not proof of subconscious racism unless the same person edited the copy on both of the Yahoo/AP photos.

No. This isn't about overt racism at all. Its about the fact that someone would label a black guy taking the food he needs to live from a grocery store a looter, while someone would label a white person as finding the same material.

A close friend used to be on the Reuters photo caption team that does the vast majority of the captioning for the Yahoo photos. Only a very few people do the work on this and on the night shift its only one person. The chances are good its the same person.

We still have a long way to go to really reach the roots of racisim. Its not just whites, either. Black people are also often prejudiced against other Blacks or Whites, or Koreans. Racism is universal. Unfortunately, when one group is more powerful than the other, the negative effects of racism are not equal.