No way!
Now if they had said that the Bush administration engineered the levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina in a bid to drowned all the blacks, then that would have been believable.
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."
No way!
Now if they had said that the Bush administration engineered the levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina in a bid to drowned all the blacks, then that would have been believable.
Hmmmm, I thought AIDS was created to kill gays, who by far, are the most affected by the disease. I guess its a twofer...kill gays and blacks...wow...very clever indeed!
Being a consperator must be a very demanding and busy job...plus you gatta keep it secret no matter what...I don't know how they do it.
I didn't really try to get him going, as my main purpose was teaching biology! But, I do remember he was very upset also when the DC Sniper turned out to be AA. He felt this was a stain on his race. I tried to explain that his race had nothing to do with it, but I'm not sure I made any headway. He was one of those kids you really like and think could go far, if they could just get some of the race stuff out of their head and see themselves as plain old Americans, instead of a hyphenated American.
susie
In Robinson's dictionary, reasonable=leftist.
People have believed what appeals to them for thousands of years. It does not mean its truthful. What do intelligent people logically deduce?
The levee failure is true. Why did the levee fail when stressed with high water and wind? Here are some possibilities:
1. It could have been sabotaged by Bush, foreigh terrorists, republicans, or democrats...
2. It could have failed because it was poorly built or that there was fraud in the conctruction.
3. It could have failed because it was never designed to handle this load.
4. It could have failed because in addition to not being designed strongly enough, it suffered from a period of negletct. Have I covered enough?
Now, I have heard that the technical community will look into these matters. But a conspiracy advocate will not trust the results of an "expert" study. I have heard that the levee broke in an area that was recently "upgraded". This means that long neglect was likely not the cause.
Now terrorists only wish they had thought of this, a disaster on the scale that Al Queda likes but so easy to cause that it could happen by itself. (Only it took a hurricane), the terrorists would have done it at Mardi Gras. So lets drop the idea of terrorism.
But this logic also means that Bush and republicans probably did not do it too. Because the hurricane is unpredictable and if they wanted to do in the black people, they would not have had the patience to wait for just the right hurricane. It becomes more and more reasonable to look at the hurricane for the solution.
If the hurricane had something to do with the problem, it probably had a lot to do with the problem. It also trashed I 10 and the causeway across the Lake. Wow, it must have been a powerful storm to do all that damage in Mississippi. Maybe the storm did it?
Note that we still have the recent upgrade and the possibility of contractor or worker fraud to look at. I don't put Bush in much harm for this. If fraud and corruption helpped the levee to fail, I would look to the democratic machine and the local "fat cats" to blame. Is this logical or what?
These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted.
Ummmm, yes they are...
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.
susie
"'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot"
By definition reasonable people do not believe unreasonable things.
If you were going to actually 'blow' the levees, the levees couldn't be easily repaired with sandbags. You would have just plain blown them the h3ll away.
The French quarter is near the English Turn.......Let's remind ourselves of the 1814 defeat of the British, and previous defeat of the French, as well as of Ante-bellum homes. All that came about prior to the levees, i.e., on land above the water. Strategically, these positions were/are defensible. If they're of historic value now, or, happen to be White, I really couldn't say, as I have never been there. But this bit of exploding levees is the stuff of pure, fiction--and racism in and of itself. The positions have to do with geography and topology.
Reasonable blacks vote Republican.
Yes, to you and me it seems silly to even contemplate such a vast conspiracy, kept quiet, etc. But, frankly, I have alot of internet friends who seem to believe things I find equally as silly. I suppose the capacity of the human being to believe silly things is limitless!
susie
NO, these are stupid asses who have been held down for 300 years and cannot make any step without being told what to do by someone.
These people are obviously not very bright, which might explain why they stay poor. For a lot of them, their main source of education is rap music.
"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.
Um, how do you see a 25' deep hole, under 17-20 feet of turbid water? You can barely see the top half or so of the white sand-bags used to plug the hole in the levee.
Of course they do. Its another reason LOLA should be put under Federal control for the next 25 years or till it can think for itself.
"reasonable"?????? Was an "U" and a "N" prefix omitted from that word??
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