AS I SEE IT...

Louis Farrakhan

I'll admit that I believe the twin towers in New York were taken down in a huge, governmental conspiracy that simulated an attack on America as big as Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Pearl Harbor attack convinced America that it was time for us to enter WWWII. President Bush probably could not have convinced America to go to war in Iraq without the events of September 11th, 2001.

But I have a real problem with believing Louis Farrakhan when he says there was a conspiracy to blow up levees in New Orleans just to kill black people, and keep white people dry.

Farrakhan's allegations really sound outrageous on the surface, but wait...


I've been studying the numbers on the 2000 Census... and it was not until I looked at a color coded map on page six of the 2000 census that I realized how ignorant I am about black population density in America. I don't have the words to explain how naive I feel after viewing the population density map from the 2000 census.

According to the 2000 census report, about three fifths of all people who reported Black live in ten states. (See map on page six at
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf)

The first thought that popped into my brain after seeing the Census map I mentioned above is, “Oh my God, the transplanted evacuees, who went to the mid-west, are in for the biggest surprise of their lives.” Before I saw that map, I thought that the majority of the New Orleans evacuees would come home as soon as the first snow fell; now I am not so sure.

I’ve been thinking that the one and only possible good thing about so many evacuees going north is that northerners may at last finally discover that those restaurants claiming to be serving Cajun food – aren’t. The evacuees, white and black alike, will most definitely take their culture, heritage, and their culinary skills with them and northerners can only benefit from being exposed to real, traditional Southern Cajun cooking.

I’ll revisit this topic again later, but it is pass time that I need to eat breakfast.


References:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/14/201055.shtml

http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf

http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-541.pdf

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/16/11533.shtml