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Wash Postie: 'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot
NewsMax ^
| 9/18/05
| NewsMax
Posted on 09/18/2005 10:16:23 AM PDT by wagglebee
"Reasonable" African Americans in New Orleans believe that the Bush administration engineered the levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina in a bid to save the city's white sections by flooding black neighborhoods, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said Sunday.
"I was stunned in New Orleans at how many black New Orleanians would tell me with real conviction that somehow the levee breaks had been engineered in order to save the French Quarter and the Garden District at the expense of the Lower Ninth Ward, which is almost all black," Robinson told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
The levee break conspiracy theory parallels the plot outlined early last week by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry," Farrakhan told a North Carolina audience.
The Washington Post columnist's report suggests that Farrakhan's poisonous theory appears to have gained currency.
Robinson said that while he doesn't believe the levee breaks were deliberately engineered, that fact that so many blacks do "tells you something about our racial divide in New Orleans."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: black; bush; conspiracytheory; katrina; leftists; leveeplot; levees; mediabias; neworleans; neworleansflood; noi; tinfoil; washingtonpost
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The Washington Post columnist's report suggests that Farrakhan's poisonous theory appears to have gained currency. Decades of welfare state mentality created by the 'Rats convince blacks of things that are counterproductive to them.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:16:24 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
"These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
Look, Robinson, anyone who believe this nonsense is neither reasonable nor sober. Get that through your thick left wing head and then reassess EVERYTHING.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:19:10 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: wagglebee
"These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
Look, Robinson, anyone who believe this nonsense is neither reasonable nor sober. Get that through your thick left wing head and then reassess EVERYTHING.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:19:28 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: wagglebee
Louis Farrakhan is more credible than George Bush? What's in that NO water?
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:19:56 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: wagglebee
Between the lousy education system in Louisiana, the welfare state, and radical leftists telling them that whites hate them, I'm not surprised to read this.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:20:02 AM PDT
by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: wagglebee
I wonder what unreasonable black people are saying.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:20:14 AM PDT
by
Little_shoe
("For Sailor MEN in Battle fair since fighting days of old have earned the right.to the blue and gold)
To: wagglebee
You can say practically anything with a semi-serious face and at least 10% of the population will probably believe it.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:20:23 AM PDT
by
AZ_Cowboy
("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
To: wagglebee; mhking
As I compare and contrast this with the impromptu interview by an ABC reporter with Katrina refugees who refused to blame President Bush for anything and rightly placed blame on local officials in Louisiana, I highly doubt Robinson's report. It's more MSM manufacured news. What else is new?
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:20:32 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(Non-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
To: BenLurkin
Wonder why they didn't believe the space aliens broke the levees conspiracy story.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:21:04 AM PDT
by
stopem
To: wagglebee
What about the stories of the "Mother Wheel" that was seen hovering over the levees and firing photon torpedoes at them?
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:22:05 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
To: wagglebee
"These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that." Of course, this is New Orleans we are talking about so what qualifies as "reasonable" is relative.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:22:16 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: wagglebee
On the other hand there is the view; does it matter what they believe?
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:22:19 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:22:40 AM PDT
by
TAdams8591
(President Reagan is NUMBER ONE!!!!)
To: wagglebee
What a shame. Even the dumbest of dumbest know that it was not just their area but a great portion of white areas that were flooded.
Lets be fair and show the faces of Lakeview, Bucktown, Old Metairie, St Bernard Parish. Mostly white. These areas lost a lot more.
Who is making most of the contributions to the Katrina funds? Bet the faces are white too.
What a shame.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:24:06 AM PDT
by
rineaux
(I Refuse to comment on this post until I know what Jesse Jackson Thinks.)
To: wagglebee
"These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
No they are not. They are far from reasonable, in fact they are just the opposite. They are simply reasoning that this is the perfect time to show their true feelings towards white folks.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:24:19 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
To: wagglebee
What do these "reasonable" people in New Orleans believe is to explain for the lack of buses deployed to help people get out of the city?
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:24:38 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: wagglebee
Damn, now I have to call my one of my best friends and tell him that he's black and all his inlaws are too. They all lost their homes in the Lakefront area.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:24:48 AM PDT
by
Recon Dad
(The Hallmark JDAM - "For those who want to send only the very best")
To: wagglebee
Robinson is chuckling inside because he loves it when "reasonable" blacks believe what he wants them to believe.
God help them, and us.
To: wagglebee
The same people that believe the ship on Snapple bottles are slave ships because the KKK own Snapple. Check snopes if you don't believe me.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:25:53 AM PDT
by
doodad
To: stopem
Because this buys the domestic enemy another twenty years of anti-republican support from gullible Americans of every color.
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posted on
09/18/2005 10:26:35 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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