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."
They believe this, Eugene, because you keep lying to them. Behold your Frankenstein Monster...the retarded MSM consumers, suitable for nothing except looting and watching Fahrenheit 911.
This garbage has no room in ANY paper. The 'Post' should fold up there tent if this is the kind of crap they will give print to.
OK, 'spain to me again, why we're gonna cough up $200+++ Billion?
He was black, by-the-way...
Good one.
Just as long as you take care to remember; "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man will probably be executed."
I have a coworker (also a bright guy"software engineer") Tell me the same thing over lunch. He refused to be disuaded and now refuses to speak to me although I was never rude or condescending in my efforts to convince him that AIDS is not a selective virus
"I don't doubt that, from my own experience. It was a big eye opener to teach in such a racially diverse school. I think what you are taught as you are growing up is VERY hard to shake off. This is why the left wants to sieze control of the education system."
Which is why we need to seize it back. Tell your FRiends! When they retire from some lucrative and stressful career, they can become teachers. That will give them something to do with their spare time, if any.
let's see.... flood the black sections so they will have to go to the white sections; that would protect the whites? Even the logic of the supposed plot is WRONG!!!!
And the "lakefront" section is upper middle class white IIRC..
Kind of that's what I did. Well, I didn't retire from a lucrative career. I managed to get my kids raised and needed an income to put them thru college! But your point is well taken.
susie
Second time through I noticed we were talking about Eugene Robinson. His column is often heavily leavened with flaming leftism and black activism. I would expect nothing other from him than this.
I have no doubt that some lunatics believe this crap. I also have no doubt that most people think that people who believe this crap are lunatics. Louis Farrakhan and Robinson being two cases in point.
kind of what I'm doing, actually, except, as with you, I didn't retire from a lucrative career. You don't get rich in the military. I've been arguing with people on FR for a few years, here and there, now and again, about conservatives taking back the public schools. If we did that, at least enough to get the kids exposed to both sets of idea, and how they developed, I'd bet we'd win.
...."The Washington Post columnist's report suggests that Farrakhan's poisonous theory appears to have gained currency."....
Louie, I've got a bundle of money to give you!
Meet me in Ft. Marcy Park!
Yes, Bush plotted to wipe out decrepit neighborhoods so the Feds would be forced to dole out $200 billion in new welfare to them. Sure, that makes perfect sense. I think Bush should offer these "reasonable" Blacks a one way ticket to Liberia.
This story is being pushed by a few of Cindy Sheehan's buddies in Louisiana (seriously).
This kind of wackery is helping them gain sympathy and solicit donations--a virtual meal ticket for them, as well as an issue that can be exploited to help their careers.
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