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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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To: wagglebee

This sounds a bit like the old idea that crack was a CIA plot to wipe out the black community.

What I find puzzling is why so many people are so willing to believe something that is so incredible.


21 posted on 09/18/2005 10:29:16 AM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: wagglebee

"'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot"

They also believe water flows uphill.

Maybe 'reasonable' isn't the right word.


22 posted on 09/18/2005 10:29:17 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: wagglebee
nothing can be done, there are always such people.
23 posted on 09/18/2005 10:30:52 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (admittedly too unstable for public office)
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To: doodad
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.

Yeah, and besides, Rush Limbaugh loves the stuff!

24 posted on 09/18/2005 10:31:22 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: frankjr
They also believe water flows uphill.

Yes, the conspiracy seems to involve reversing the laws of gravity to benefit white people. The Franch Quarter is ABOVE sea level, while the flooded neighborhoods were not. George Bush must have ben very clever to engineer that!

25 posted on 09/18/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT by WL-law
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To: wagglebee

I once had an otherwise very bright African American student tell me that he firmly believed that the US Govt started AIDS to kill black folk. He was very serious, and I could not convince him otherwise. Of course, he was only 15 or 16, but it points out that the problem is that from a young age, some of these kids are taught that it is POSSIBLE and maybe even LIKELY that the white majority govt is out to get them and will stoop to all sorts of awful things to either hold them back or outright get rid of them. It's sad, but I'm not sure how you fight that.
susie


26 posted on 09/18/2005 10:35:18 AM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: wagglebee

Evidently being on high ground had nothing to do with not being flooded!


27 posted on 09/18/2005 10:37:11 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
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To: wagglebee
President Bush....

Q: What is Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?

A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.

28 posted on 09/18/2005 10:37:38 AM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: 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.



There! Someone had to add this to your illiterate Claim.

29 posted on 09/18/2005 10:37:48 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: wagglebee
Unless there are retaining walls (levees) BETWEEN the sections of the town [that would indeed be a gated community writ large], flooding only predetermined parts of town selectively would be a nontrivial problem even for somebody with Karl Rove's magic powers, for water seeks its own level.
30 posted on 09/18/2005 10:38:09 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: ncountylee

Where is Calypso Louie's proof? Someone with power and a good legal backgroud should force him to show proof to back up his allegations. But that would be a fruitless chore because HE HAS NO PROOF! He raises the issue just to stir the pot of racism. What a worthless sack of human excrement. If any property damage or deaths occur from any violence resulting from this bogus drek, louie should be thrown in jail and left there. We are sick to death of race-baiting tactics. He, along with je$$e and Big al should be held accountable for the actioncs of those created by their ravings.


31 posted on 09/18/2005 10:38:13 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: rdb3
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?

I do not trust the media at all.

They lie to divide people and push their leftist agenda.

The ABC interviews you pointed out, reveal the truth of the situation. Despite the reporter's best efforts to twist the story, the people spoke the truth.

32 posted on 09/18/2005 10:38:29 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: surely_you_jest
What I find puzzling is why so many people are so willing to believe something that is so incredible.

The question is do they actually believe it, or, is Robinson talking out of his butt?


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They're going fast!

33 posted on 09/18/2005 10:38:57 AM PDT by rdb3 (Non-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: BenLurkin

The only people who would believe that have IQs lower than their shoe size.


34 posted on 09/18/2005 10:40:05 AM PDT by stbdside
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To: wagglebee

Yet again, some MSM goon tries to insist that he speaks for me. He's full of used food.


35 posted on 09/18/2005 10:40:19 AM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: brytlea
I once had an otherwise very bright African American student tell me that he firmly believed that the US Govt started AIDS to kill black folk.

Did you ever ask him about O.J.?

36 posted on 09/18/2005 10:41:22 AM PDT by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: wagglebee
As a seriously demented intellect, I would like those who believe this nonsense to know that if it were true there would be no survivors.

And no one left to spread the tale.

Anywhere.

We are not that evil, though certain myth makers may want us to believe otherwise.
37 posted on 09/18/2005 10:42:05 AM PDT by mmercier (drugs, delusions, and the imperial culture of the slums)
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To: rdb3; mhking

It's great to see you two back. Glad you took stock, and returned.


38 posted on 09/18/2005 10:42:18 AM PDT by Maigrey (Prayer Warrior 6, 3rd Battalion, First Division - Always ready)
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To: brytlea

There was a study a few months back that claimed half of all black Americans believe the HIV virus was created by the government, or something like that. The article was posted on FR.


39 posted on 09/18/2005 10:42:27 AM PDT by JasonSC
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To: mplsconservative
The ABC interviews you pointed out, reveal the truth of the situation. Despite the reporter's best efforts to twist the story, the people spoke the truth.

Right. But this begs the question: Why are so many here willing to hear this and run with it with no questions asked?

I'm disappointed with NewsMax for running with this story. We have other things that demonstrate that this mindset, if it exists in a percentage as high as the MSM says it is, is not 100% across the board.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

40 posted on 09/18/2005 10:44:14 AM PDT by rdb3 (Non-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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