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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."
Decades of welfare state mentality created by the 'Rats convince blacks of things that are counterproductive to them.
Louis Farrakhan is more credible than George Bush? What's in that NO water?
Between the lousy education system in Louisiana, the welfare state, and radical leftists telling them that whites hate them, I'm not surprised to read this.
I wonder what unreasonable black people are saying.
You can say practically anything with a semi-serious face and at least 10% of the population will probably believe it.
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Wonder why they didn't believe the space aliens broke the levees conspiracy story.
What about the stories of the "Mother Wheel" that was seen hovering over the levees and firing photon torpedoes at them?
Of course, this is New Orleans we are talking about so what qualifies as "reasonable" is relative.
On the other hand there is the view; does it matter what they believe?
Oh, no. How sad.
What a shame. Even the dumbest of dumbest know that it was not just their area but a great portion of white areas that were flooded.
Lets be fair and show the faces of Lakeview, Bucktown, Old Metairie, St Bernard Parish. Mostly white. These areas lost a lot more.
Who is making most of the contributions to the Katrina funds? Bet the faces are white too.
What a shame.
No they are not. They are far from reasonable, in fact they are just the opposite. They are simply reasoning that this is the perfect time to show their true feelings towards white folks.
What do these "reasonable" people in New Orleans believe is to explain for the lack of buses deployed to help people get out of the city?
Damn, now I have to call my one of my best friends and tell him that he's black and all his inlaws are too. They all lost their homes in the Lakefront area.
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.
Because this buys the domestic enemy another twenty years of anti-republican support from gullible Americans of every color.
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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"'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.
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