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> The Great New Orleans Land Grab-The 17th Street Canal levee was breached on purpose

22 September 2005, 03:21

I’ve never seen such a bunch of crap before. First, get your facts straight - the areas that were flooded were inhabited by both blacks and whites. If you look at the demographics of all the areas flooded in the New Orleans metro area - including Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish, there are probably more whites displaced and without homes than blacks. Additionally, there were many areas of the city that were not flooded, and guess what? Poor blacks live in those areas as well.

As far as contractors being shot, that is not true. What did happen is that a car load of black looters tried to hold up a van of contractors to the Army Corps of Engineers who were heading to the Industrial Canal to work on the levee breach. The LOOTERS not the CONTRACTORS were shot by police. The incident did take place on the Danzinger Bridge, and if you bothered to look at a map of New Orleans, goes over the Industrial Canal, not the 17th Street Canal. If you checked the facts, there were several levees that failed, including the 17th Street Canal, the London Canal and the Industrial Canal. The Danzinger Bridge is nowhere near the 17th Street Canal, and the 9th Ward is on the other side of town from the 17th Street Canal.

And of course people heard explosions. What kind of sound do you think occurs when a levee breaks, a "snap".

Blowing up levees to save New Orleans DID occur during the 1927 flood. Now every time there is a flood or a levee break people come up with these theories that it was done on purpose. But guess what? In 1927 poor whites were flooded our of their land in St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes.

But you don’t care about the facts do you?