# Louis Farrakhan says Levees Were 'Blown Up' **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435 "2005-09-19T22:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/1 "2005-09-19T22:30:01Z")
[Louis Farrakhan claims that the levees in New Orleans were likely blown up to kill and destroy the black population.](http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/091205-ad-wcnc-farrakhan.4fb21767.html). “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." I am not directly pitting him for saying that. It is too idiotic for words. I am pitting him for being a self-appointed “black leader” that spews off such idiocies to a national audience. If he is not truly a black leader, then why do news organizations keep giving him a microphone? How could that possibly help any black cause? It does nothing but harm especially because a small percentage of his audience will come to believe it. If Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson were designated as my “leaders”, I would be feeling pretty put down too. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/2 "2005-09-19T22:48:00Z")
The reliable source is the Chief Photographer on board the Mother Ship that flies around with Elijah Muhammad and other prophets and was stolen for the plot of ID4. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/3 "2005-09-19T22:51:04Z")
I have a reliable source that says Farrakhan is a fucking whackjob. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/4 "2005-09-19T22:52:26Z")
Yeah, that’s what I’d be doing in the middle of a Cat V hurricane. Planting a bomb underneath a levee. A tactical bomb. You know, the kind that directs water to the black folks’ houses. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/5 "2005-09-19T22:54:01Z")
I’m surprised he didn’t blame it on the Jew. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/6 "2005-09-19T22:55:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The reliable source is the Chief Photographer on board the Mother Ship George Clinton’s people would never go in for this bullshit. The conspiracy theories surrounding September 11th were all stupid and wrong, but yiy, at least you could understand why people suspected a conspiracy. What kind of fucking moron believes in a conspiracy behind a _hurricane_? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/7 "2005-09-19T22:57:03Z")
Wouldn’t the bomb had been better placed in the Superdome? I mean really Louis. Give the racist bombers some credit. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/8 "2005-09-19T22:57:47Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > I’m surprised he didn’t blame it on the Jew. OK, you owe me a new keyboard! And another beer!!! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/9 "2005-09-19T22:58:15Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > I’m surprised he didn’t blame it on the Jew. He wasn’t sure which one it was. I hear he suspects Morrie and Herschel. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/10 "2005-09-19T22:59:17Z")
You all misunderstand poor Louis; He just wants to proved an African American Man could be as stupid as Pat Robertson. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/11 "2005-09-19T23:01:34Z")
What’s funny is a friend of mine who evacuated from the hurricane told me within 48 hours after Katrina hit that he had heard this precise rumor going around amongst people at the hospital where he worked. And this was a hospital where most of the people had been trapped with virtually no incoming news or any real idea as to the state the city was in at that time or even what parts of the city were flooded. For example one of the patients and his family were mad at my friend because the AC wasn’t working in the hospital. The patient first demanded that he be removed to XXX hospital because the one he was in was unsatisfactory, my friend replied, “well that hospital collapsed, so I don’t see you getting good medical care there.” And then the patient said he was leaving, to which my friend replied, “if you want to find a way to swim or raft through the 10 feet of water that have us surrounded on every side, then you can.” The man was a bit befuddled by that so replied, “well, I’ll just go to get some fans and be right back” (and of course he’d still have to get through the 10 feet of water, the fact that no stores would be open, and the fact that no electricity was available to power any fans he did manage to get.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/12 "2005-09-19T23:01:51Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > You all misunderstand poor Louis; He just wants to proved an African American Man could be as stupid as Pat Robertson. 😉 And he’s doing a fine job so far. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/13 "2005-09-19T23:06:17Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > The patient first demanded that he be removed to XXX hospital because the one he was in was unsatisfactory, Hell, I’d want to go to XXX hospital too. Have you seen the nurses there? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/14 "2005-09-19T23:13:30Z")
You naive dolts. Bush hates black people. Halliburton got the no bid contract to plant the levee bombs in return for a no bid contract to rebuild them. That’s why FEMA was so slow to respond, Karl Rove couldn’t assure them that all of the planted bombs had exploded and didn’t want to get any White People killed by errant charges. The truth is staring you in the face and you just plant your heads in the sand and ridicule Louis Farrakhan. Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/15 "2005-09-19T23:17:11Z")
You really shouldn’t Pit Farrakhan. The people you should Pit are the people that believe every word the man says. Without them Farrakhan is just the whackjob that everyone ignores at the bus station. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/16 "2005-09-19T23:17:12Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > You all misunderstand poor Louis; He just wants to proved an African American Man could be as stupid as Pat Robertson. 😉 LOL. I was thinking something similar: Stupidity knows no racial boundaries. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/17 "2005-09-19T23:17:13Z")
> [@](#): > > What kind of fucking moron believes in a conspiracy behind a hurricane? And we’re right back to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/18 "2005-09-19T23:22:55Z")
Ahh, Farrakhan, the black-man’s Pat Robertson. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/19 "2005-09-19T23:23:23Z")
I am starting to think that Louis Farrakhan is a plant by the white man to make the black man look stupid. I think someone should ask him that question to see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-says-levees-were-blown-up/322435/20 "2005-09-19T23:24:22Z")
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