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I don't believe this. Wash Postie: 'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot.

"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."

This disturbs me. Not in the "fact" that it might be true (there's no possible way it can be), but that so many people believe it, if this guy is right.

"These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."

How one can ignore the laws of physics to this degree staggers the mind. First of all, the kind of bomb that would be required to do this kind of damage would be kin to a Daisy Cutter, a 15,000 pound bomb dropped from a B-52. I think someone would have seen a B-52 flying over the city. Second, the sound from such an explosion would have been heard throughout most of the city. Third, water doesn't flow uphill, no matter how hard Minister Farrakhan wants it to. Those primarily White neighborhoods that didn't flood, didn't flood because they were built on higher ground. The land that was built on lower ground was cheaper so the poor gravitated toward that.

Now we see just how deep the attitude of "the government must help me" goes. Those who are too used to suckling on the government teat will do nothing to improve their lives, depending on the government to rescue them (even if they didn't want to go in the first place) and rebuild their lives. Let's see how many don't jump on the learning curve and continue to live in those neighborhoods that were flooded.

Wow. I mean, just Wow.