Farrakhan Says Bush Engineered Levy Destruction
I saw this little news blip in a Larry Elder column. Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan was in Memphis promoting the anniversary of his million man march and needed some controversy. Thankfully, the main stream media has not picked this up yet. Louis Farrakhan said, "I heard from a 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."
What? We've heard this before. It has been a rumor in the poor section of town for years and years. Does it make it any more true? NO.
Elder continues:
Washington Post reporter Eugene Robinson said on NBC's "Meet the Press," "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. . . . These are not wild-eyed people. These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."
For many people, past discrimination means present and future discrimination. End of discussion. Never mind the growing black economy, an all-time high percentage of black homeownership, and a "black GDP" that would make black America the 16th wealthiest country in the world.
Elder makes interesting points. The Democratically dominated media like to help further the fallacy that everyone "conservative" is against the poor and all Southerners are against blacks. Obviously both contentions are wrong. The North abandoned slavery prior to the War Between the States because they got a better deal in the indentured servants coming from Ireland. The Northern aristocracy (the forefathers of many of the Liberals and so called progessives now) ceased paying the housing and feeding of the slave nation and replaced the effort with real slaves - the Irish. They provided little housing and pennies a day for laborious work. Still, the fallacy continues as history is re-written to suit the "progressives" trying to further their points and attacks on conservatives.
posted by scjhawk @ 6:18 PM
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Was New Orleans Levee Breach Intentional?
BlackElectorate.com's E-Letter To Mike Dunne and The Advocate Re: "LSU Storm Expert Rejects Levee Failure Explanation"
(BlackElectorate.com) - Your article, "LSU Storm Expert Rejects Levee Failure Explanation", is one of the most significant articles I have seen since the entire controversy over Minister Louis Farrakhan’s suggestion and hypothesis that the levee near New Orleans’ Ninth Ward was exploded, began.
Last week, I similarly wrote Daniel Machalaba of The Wall St. Journal regarding his article, "Still Unknown: Did Barge Strike Levee?" His article also focuses on an underreported aspect of the factors that possibly affected a levee breach, which may be more responsible for the flooding of New Orleans than the winds of Hurricane Katrina, alone.
What I see in both of your articles is an intellectual honesty and open-mindedness that is so obviously lacking in journalism today and, of course, even more so in opinion and ideologically-driven talk radio and cable news shows -especially where the subject of race and 'conspiracy' are concerned.
While I had been hearing mention made of the LSU report your article centers on, I did not learn of your specific article until I was blessed to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan’s September 23, 2005 address from Memphis, Tennessee. In that address, the Minister mentions you by name and the subject matter of your article. He also makes reference to a few other articles and information sources, in an interesting presentation.
I think it is important for people to think carefully about what your article and that of Mr. Machalaba point to. And that is, in my view, that there exists a reasonable and rational basis for suspecting that there is more to the reality of what caused the levee to break than what has been publicly offered by government and the mainstream media. Allow me to outline several salient points of that basis.
First, there is the detail, which seems to have been missed by many who have focused improperly on Minister Farrakhan’s remarks. And that detail is, what he mentioned again on Friday night, in Memphis – that it was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin himself, who told Minister Farrakhan that there was a 25-foot crater underneath the levee near the Ninth Ward. Mayor Nagin did not tell Minister Farrakhan that it was an explosion that caused that 25-foot crater. The Minister came to that conclusion himself.
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