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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."
[But this begs the question: Why are so many here willing to hear this and run with it with no questions asked?]
Because of the irrational fear and hatred that the Left has for the Right that they've been saturating the media with for the last forty years.
Three kinds of Rum...:-)
That the National Guard was brought in with specific instructions to shoot and kill every black person they see, just as long as there are no TV cameras nearby.
[Conspiracy theories sell in low income low IQ venues.]
Conspiracy theories sell when people are afraid.
In many cases that fear is reasonable, such as when there is a war or a depression or other disaster, but in this case the fear has been deliberately perpetuated by the Left for political gain.
For years they've swallowed the race-baiting propaganda fed to them by hustlers like the Rev-rund Jack-sonn. We shouldn't be surprised that they believe this latest urban myth.
"These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
Of ANY color, there are ALWAYS tons and loads of sober people in New Orleans, are there not?
You're right. Most Americans only experience with the black community is through the MSM. We know they lie about us - we know they lie about evangelical Christians, we know they lie for Democrats and cover for the likes of KKK Byrd. Why wouldn't they create a story (as in fiction) about how black people feel? You might be on to something important, rdb3.
One can not be reasonable and believe that. If one believes as such they are, by definition, unreasonable.
I have come to the conclusion that this portion of the black community has a high percentage of Arab genes, for they both live in a dream world and conjure up "proof" to sustain it.
Just part of the Dem's desperate "no holds barred" effort to cover-up the inner workings of the Democratic big city machines exposed by Katrina.
From the Dem plantation point of view, it is better that reasonable blacks believe whites bombed the levee than incredible stories that whites risked their lives to rescue blacks and helped them to resettle. That last bit is really threatening.
Welcome to the echo chamber portion of the Marxist Laboratory.
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If it was a plot, then it was by Blanco and Nagin. They were responsible for evacuating.
Toxins.
Did you ever wonder how it is that it became the 'dreaded N' word? Who made it the word that can't be spoken and why? Everybody once used the N word because it was the only word that described people of a certain characteristic in a way that was easily identifiable by all. Ask anyone who lived in the pre-50s era to see what other word was used. So how did that then make the transition from acceptable to being unacceptable? I've read the story before as there have been a few threads on this subject here on FR. Of course there have been intermediate steps too - blacks, coloured people ..... and now to the totally ridiculous African American. Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with the N word - don't use it myself because I don't like people looking at me funny but at the end of the day, it's just a word. Rest assured, we will likely live to see the day when the next faux pas will be to use the African American word - referred to as the 'dreaded AA' word and of course it will be replaced by something else and all previously used words will be held in disdain. It's actions and attitudes that count, not some flippant and changing definition that we stick on a word.
As for the other point about where attitudes akin to racism do exists, I think the biggest offender is actually liberalism where the word tolerance (for them) has taken on the meaning of acceptance. Thus the only thing these 'tolerant' people are intolerant about is those that carry principles that won't tolerate certain things. For example, I'm labeled an intolerant individual because of my belief in one God, one truth, one salvation, an inerrant scripture, hell for the unbelievers, truth not being relative, homosexuality is a sin etc. Attitudes against me aren't racism (because there is no race involved) but it has the same tone to it. And Christians across America had better get used to it because it is breathing down our necks daily.
but our community is proactive when such events are possible
we would be asking to much for those to be proactive. it would start with leadership, something new orleans has lacked for about 25 plus years.
the Corp could have all the video of every square inch of breached section of the wall(s) proving no one tampered with it, we would still have that same number of people believe the goverment did do it.
If, as someone said, a loose barge hit it (not to get into pressure or sand boils after impact) they would think W intentionally sent the barge(s) to do so.
I did read, cannot remember where, a witness did see a barge hit the side of the levee. Another person said it sounded like an "explosion". A lot of people have run with the explosion theroy. Louis Farakan said brought it up in a few centers he visited and some Air America nitwits echoed it.
So no matter what, you will not be able to change a mind set of someone who does not have a mind of their own.
I know white people who believe this junk. It's not a black thing. It's a Democrat thing.
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