There! Someone had to add this to your illiterate Claim.
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."
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.
"'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot"
They also believe water flows uphill.
Maybe 'reasonable' isn't the right word.
Yeah, and besides, Rush Limbaugh loves the stuff!
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!
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
Evidently being on high ground had nothing to do with not being flooded!
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.
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.
The question is do they actually believe it, or, is Robinson talking out of his butt?
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They're going fast!
The only people who would believe that have IQs lower than their shoe size.
Yet again, some MSM goon tries to insist that he speaks for me. He's full of used food.
Did you ever ask him about O.J.?
It's great to see you two back. Glad you took stock, and returned.
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.
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!
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