Louis Farrakahn Says Government Conspiracy Flooded New Orleans

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is once again adding fuel to the flames by demanding that the government must prove that a levee wasn’t bombed intentionally in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in order to destroy the black part of the city. Farrakhan said that he believes military explosives may have been used by the government to blow a hole in the levee, and that the resulting destruction and flooding amounted to no less than "mass murder" orchestrated by the federal government.

"I heard from a reliable source who saw a 25-foot-deep crater under the levee breach," Farrakhan said. "It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry." In an NBC interview, Washington Post reporter Eugene Robinson jumped on the Farrakhan bandwagon by saying that many black people in New Orleans held the same view. "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 said. "These are not wild-eyed people. These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that." Apparently these reasonable people, as well as Farrakhan, believe that the government somehow knew exactly where the hurricane would hit, and they scrambled to figure out which part of the levee was weak enough and positioned just right for a break to accomplish such discriminatory destruction. And then secret government agents hurried out in the middle of a hurricane to place their bombs so they’d be ready to set them off at just the right time to wipe out as many black people as they could. Right.

Farrakhan made his outrageous comments while speaking at a Washington news conference, quoting the Bible and the Quran as he spoke of his theories, saying that he is confident God will reveal the truth. The conference was part of the kickoff events for Saturday’s Millions More March to be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The event is being patterned after the Million Man March held 10 years ago in the same location, featuring prominent social justice advocates, Muslim and Christian leaders, political figures, activists, and hip-hop celebrities getting together to call attention to the perceived problem of minorities not being powerful enough. Farrakhan says that he hopes the Millions More March will be part of a long-range effort to give more power to minorities. Interesting that the Nation of Islam leader rails out against minorities not being powerful enough, when his first social justice march excluded women. He must have realized the dichotomy of his message when planning the Millions More event, since this time, women are being welcomed.