Reasonable blacks vote Republican.
Precisely
From the Dem plantation point of view, it is better that reasonable blacks believe whites bombed the levee than incredible stories that whites risked their lives to rescue blacks and helped them to resettle. That last bit is really threatening.
I find the wording very strange. Was he expecting that most blacks would be unreasonable? Is he ridiculing blacks for their foolishness? There are so many ways to attack this article.