[wagglebee]

The Washington Post columnist's report suggests that Farrakhan's poisonous theory appears to have gained currency.

Decades of welfare state mentality created by the 'Rats convince blacks of things that are counterproductive to them.

[playball0]

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.

[Bob J]

"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach."

And what exactly would one expect to find in the dirt under a raging waterfall spewing millions of gallons of water? Daffodils?

[truth_seeker]

The qualification for "reasonable" and "sober" has been set way too low.

Soft bigotry of low expectations?

[plain talk]

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.

[NonValueAdded]

How could that work even if that was the aim of the white racist uberlords? Water seeks its own level and therefore flooding the low-lying areas, presumably mostly black populated, would simply mean the unintentional breach against which this supposed deliberate flooding was aimed would guarantee damage to the white areas since the additional water would rise above the flooded black areas. If anything, to protect the white areas from a natural breach, you would want to keep the low-lying areas dry so they would receive the floodwater while whitey got out of town. Did Robinson ask a single one of these "reasonable" blacks how they thought the alleged plan was supposed to work? What this the WaPo's position on fact checking? Supposedly an editor or two signed off on Robinson having actual "reasonable" black sources and wasn't just pulling this out of his, er, hat.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

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!

[Paleo Conservative]

Do these people not know how to read a topographic map?

[RasterMaster]

And a few "reasonable" Spaniards believed the world was flat before Columbus proved them wrong.

[Waryone]

I have relatives in the state. Yes, many do believe that the levees were opened on purpose. However, they do not blame this on George Bush or the administration. They place the blame solely on the local administration also known at the democrats in power.

Once again the media is lying in an attempt to tarnish George Bush. They know that the only ones blaming him are the Louisiana democratic officials who have caused this mess. They hope the rest of the world does not find out about their lies.

[dfwddr]

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."

Wait a minute... I thought last weeks complaint was that the Federal Government wasn't there...
They would have had to be there to "engineered the levee breaks", yet these same people were claiming they weren't there.

So which is it ????????????

[Fintan]

"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..."
 

Name one. Just one.

[marsh2]

What about that rapper on the tv fund raiser who stated that Bush was sending military in to shoot black people?

[uncbob]

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."

I am stunned that this guy was stunned

[Nevermore]

Some "reasonable" people believe that central planning will defeat poverty.
Some "reasonable" people believe OJ is innocent.
Some "reasonable" people believe that there were no WMD in Iraq.
Some "reasonable" people believe that Slick Willie was a victim of a VRWC.
Some "reasonable" people believe that we spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives on an Iraq war for "cheap" oil.
Some "reasonable" people re-elected Slick Willie.
Some "reasonable" people believe that the Holocaust is a Jewish fairytale.
Some "reasonable" people believe that Sheets & Hitlery are worthy of Senate seats.

Go figure. And this rather wide-spread ignorance couldn't have something to do with irresponsible media, who give air time to any kook who will denigrate liberal opponents, could it?
It just proves Honest Abe was right: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time..." Or if you prefer to believe that was P.T. Barnum's wisdom, you might tack on, "There's a sucker born every minute!"
This "stuns" only Neanderthals like Robinson.

[TheDon]

Looks they are onto Gov. "Whitey" Blanco's scheme.

[pollyannaish]

This makes me white hot ANGRY! It is NOT right. It is slavery of a different kind.

What kind of people prey on generations of other people, who desperately need real help, by promoting what is basically paranoid mental illness?

What kind of people say "everyone is out to get you, everyone wants to kill you, you can't ever succeed no matter what" in an effort to retain power, but under the guise of "helping?"

What kind of people take pleasure in keeping others from making a better life because they are afraid they might no longer need them and therefore worship and protect suffering?

This is absolutely outrageous, but not because of the ludicrous charge the President tried to kill them. It is because Democrats have been systematically, corporately robbing them of what was left of their dignity, the very part of them that needed building up and in the process robbed them of their very humanity.

All I can say to the Dems and the MSM on this—may God have mercy on your soul.

/rant

[billnaz]

For years they've swallowed the race-baiting propaganda fed to them by hustlers like the Rev-rund Jack-sonn. We shouldn't be surprised that they believe this latest urban myth.

[righttackle44]

"These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."

Of ANY color, there are ALWAYS tons and loads of sober people in New Orleans, are there not?

[NeoCaveman]

"These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."

One can not be reasonable and believe that. If one believes as such they are, by definition, unreasonable.

[Oatka]

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."
and
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.
and
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.

I have come to the conclusion that this portion of the black community has a high percentage of Arab genes, for they both live in a dream world and conjure up "proof" to sustain it.