Posted on 09/18/2005 10:16:23 AM PDT by wagglebee
I know what is in that water and when I see it pumping out I have to look away or change the ch because I know what they said about the waters and it's coming out dirty from the pumps. Oh yuk!
How come the whites in St Bernard's Parrish were devastated as well? Hmmmm. Of course, don't mention Gulfport, MS that was blown away is 90% white.
It's no crime to be stupid, but it's not very helpful either.
I sure can't answer that question.
I met quite a few Minnesota Freepers at a picnic last Sunday, and most, if not all, are as distrustful of the media as I am.
As for NewsMax running this story, yes it's disappointing, but much of what they run is disappointing. I've become quite dismissive of anything from NewsMax. They're kind of like an annoying gnat to me anymore. And yes, I know I don't HAVE to read their articles. What's that expression about stopping to watch a train wreck....? LOL
"Look, Robinson, anyone who believe this nonsense is neither reasonable nor sober. "
That's about all that needs to be said.
The qualification for "reasonable" and "sober" has been set way too low.
Soft bigotry of low expectations?
Good point. I hadn't considered that possibility.
This theory is preposterous as it relates to the 17th St canal failure. That failure flooded the whole town.
There were 3 (at least) levee / floodwall breaks. One of the first ones reported was near 9th ward. This is the same area that flooded during Betsy in 1965. I moved to N.O. in 1968 and during the 1970s I spoke with numerous people who sincerely believed the levees were deliberately broken during Betsy to flood the 9th Ward and save the rest of N.O. These were sober white people. I never saw any evidence but a large number of people believed that. Back then many in 9th Ward were white so it wasn't a racial thing but a class thing. So this type of rumor has some deep roots in this area.
If the 17th Street Canal floodwall had not failed many, many people would believe that the levee near the 9th Ward was deliberately broken again. However, this time we have 3 failures (at least) and the 17th Street failure flooded the whole city. For these guys to claim the 17th Street Canal was intentionally broken, of course, is absurd.
He said this with a perfectly straight face, and honestly believed it.
I was speechless.
"I wonder what unreasonable black people are saying."
Maybe - in the Post's view - they're the ones who think it was just the hurricane's fault.
My guess is Robinson found one or two people who said this to him and he went from there. If that. I just can't believe anyone other than Farakhan is stupid enough to really believe something like this. I think the story is nothing but the rantings of a race-baiter gleefully rubbing his hands together trying to seperate black and white yet again. Screw him. People are people. A lot of folks lost everything. Why does it always have to be "us against them" mentality in the press? I'm sick of it.
I'm not aware of the French being defeated at New Orleans. They gave New Orleans and the part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain in 1763 to compensate Spain for losing Florida to the British. (The British had captured Cuba and Spain traded Florida for Cuba.)
My take on it as well. This is how they get to advance crackpot theories in front of a national audience and still "maintain their journalistic standards." The same tactic they used to keep the "Bush stole Ohio with Diebold's help" story floating for weeks after the election.
And this comes right after one of the Compost's "journalists" has an online chat where he assures us that in his opinion, George Bush isn't really a racist, despite what everyone's saying. I'm still waiting for them to roll out Cindy Sheehan's demand that the military stop "occupying" New Orleans.
This all tells me that the media and the black "leadership" are starting to panic. The President's poll numbers are starting to rebound, and people are starting to realize that while the situation on the Gulf Coast is bad, it's nowhere near the horror show the press and the democrats made it out to be so they could attempt to once again take down George Bush.
But most of all, they got a glimpse of the end of their power in Bush's speech last week, just like they're seeing the lessening of their power in the sight of mostly white relief workers and citizens in the shelter communities helping these black evacuees. Bush was supposed to be shamed into opening the doors to the Treasury and looking away while the Louisiana democrat machine just carted out the loot to spend as it pleased. Instead, Bush promised to help rebuild the area, but with incentives to private charities and interests to do much of the heavy lifting, as well as oversight to ensure that things just didn't revert back to business as usual on megabucks steroids.
Of course, the black "leadership", the Dims and the media just can't have that. They've got to have back their reliable plantation voting bloc, kept ignorant and angry and ready to roll out in the buses on election day for the price of a couple packs of cigarettes or a vial of crack cocaine. There's no way that many of these once reliably democrat-voting people will allow themselves to be used for so cheaply by these self-serving jackals in their $3,000 suits and their chauffeured SUVs once they've been exposed to the America outside of the ghetto, which is exactly what George Bush is "threatening" to do.
This kind of race-baiting and conspiracy mongering, masquerading as "journalism", will only get much, much uglier and vitriolic as time goes by.
The flooding is still Bush's fault, for putting Lake Pontchartrain next to New Orleans.
I know you know the answer, but it needs to be said. It has to always be an us against them mentality because it serves the purposes of the liberal agenda. If suddenly there were not class/race/economic groups to pit against each other, their power base would crumble.
susie
It must be brain poisoning from the swamp gas. That was left over from white folk sewage drained into the swamp after a plantation party.
Or is the gator pee that causes swamp gas? I hear they are all white meat!
Do these people not know how to read a topographic map?
Bingo!!
Here's the interview. Glad to see you back on Free Republic.
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