Pseudo-Minister Louis Farrakhan and the midget-director, Spike Lee, have been making press lately with a theory they admit they can't prove that the U.S. Government bombed the levees that failed in New Orleans, specifically to flood black neighborhoods.
In the first place, Farrakhan is giving the U.S. Government too much credit. The U.S. Government may be run by men wicked enough to think of such things, but it hasn't been run by anyone smart enough to pull that off since the Small Pox Blanket days.
The reason the idea can get any traction at all probably has less to do with the Tuskegee Experiment than it does with the blatant racial profiling, selective enforcement of drug laws, and other institutional racism that still amounts to a defact Apartheid system in America. Folks who give credence to the bombed-levee theory of New Orleans flooding are really saying is, 'Well, I wouldn't put it past Uncle Sam.'
To be sure, Uncle Same is an unfortunate relation to have, no matter your skin color.
Consider this: Bill Cosby types didn't put Marion Barry back in office after his cocaine conviction. Gangsta types didn't either, they don't vote. In a predominantly black district, Marion Barry was elected by people who feel they have more in common with Barry than they do with, say, Bill Cosby.
Not that they necessarily fiddle with cocaine, but maybe they have a brother, a mother, a son, who's doing time for nothing but taking the poor man's vacation. Seen how economically marginalized a person is not just for being black but for having to answer 'yes' on that 'Have you ever been convicted of a felony?' question on job applications.
No, I don't believe the levees were bombed. Neglected, but not bombed. I do believe that the number of people who'll give credence to a given conspiracy theory is a good indicator of whether that theory speaks to a deeper truth.
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Pseudo-Minister Louis Farrakhan and the midget-director, Spike Lee, have been making press lately with a theory they admit they can't…
Whoa. That one hasn’t made news over here. Nor should it. These idiots should receive no press. Ever. [same with Pat Robertson, who after his absurd comment some weeks ago was later brought back on CNN to give his “opinion” on whatshername, Bush’s little lawyer playmate, for the Supreme Court. Since when is this guy’s opinion valid!!??]
Farrakhan is a hop, skip and a step backward for the things he’s trying to achieve for his ‘brothers and sisters’ and I’m continually shocked someone, regardless of colour, doesn’t ‘tag’ him.
But then again I feel the same way about Bush…
Spike should just shut the fuck up and just make movies. Sometimes.
Anyway, why would the gov’ment need to bomb something that was just begging to collapse (decades of documentation prove this) if, say, Oprah Winfrey farted in it’s generally direction?
j
(who honestly doesn’t know (or care) if ever-fluctuating Oprah is in a fat or lipo stage at the moment…)
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