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"I heard from a very 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," Farrakhan said.

Maybe we can trap him and that preacher dude together for ever.

Where is the MSM to drag his name through the mud?

If a white guy made a statement like that, it'd be the leading story on every news show for the next three days.

That's cuz people listen to white people.

You know, if the MSM stopped focusing on assholes that just want to play the blame game and cause more divide among the people, and started focusing on actual leaders who want to unite everyone and actually solve problems, we'd all be in better shape.

On the bright side, negative news is selling fewer and fewer papers every year, too.

The internet will save us from the negativity of the mass media, and replace it with the negativity of distributed sources. Not really any better, I admit, but at least it's more decentralized.

Show me one. And don't even try Bush.

THEY DANCED WITH WHO BRUNG THEM

During the past week I read story after story about how so many of New Orleans' middle and upper income residents were able to flee the city as Katrina approached, but the poor were left to fend for themselves. The difference here wasn't money. The difference here was attitude. It was the self-sufficient vs. the dependent. The evil rich and middle-income residents fled New Orleans because they are used to accepting the responsibility for their own welfare and safety. The poor stayed behind because they're mired in the sludge of generation after generation of dependency on government. The accomplished class knows that they bear the responsibility for meeting their own needs and providing for their safety. The poor by-and-large bear no such responsibility. To them, it's the government's job. Instead of taking responsibility for their own safety --- they just sat there, waiting for government to come and save them. The achievement-oriented residents of New Orleans were spared the horrors of the violence and filth that followed the flooding because they kept doing what they had been doing all along -- accepting responsibility. The poor were subjected to the violence and filth because they also kept doing what they had been doing all along -- depending on government.

Hurricane Katrina illustrated the truth behind the contention that poverty is a behavioral disorder.

That's cuz people listen to white people.

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only they would pick up their phones.

"I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain't none. No one answers," she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity. "Everyone just says, 'Get out, get out.' I've got no way of getting out. And now I've got no money."