Farrakhan out does Kanye West

It takes a man like Louis Farrakhan to make a statement as outlandish as the claim that the government blew up the levees in New Orleans. He actually has succeeded in making Kanye West's insanity pail by comparison. Why do people listen to this nonsense? Do they actually believe that President Bush used Katrina as an excuse to wash way the poor blacks from New Orleans so that a new whiter New Orleans could be rebuilt? I fear that they actually do believe this. There exists such an ingrained distrust that what might appear to a white guy like myself as patently false, is easily accepted by others. Take for example this week's episode of House. Dr. Eric Foreman (has anyone else found that name funny?) played by Omar Epps attempts to prescribe an older black gentleman (played by Charles Robinson better known as Mac from Night Court) a medication that is known to treat the blood chemistry of African Americans better than other medication used to treat white guys like me. The gentleman objects and just about calls Dr. Foreman and Uncle Tom. The next day he returns to see if another doctor will give him the white pills. House wants to give him what he really needs, but has to resort to tricking him into taking what he thinks is the white pills which are in fact the very medication that Foreman prescribed the day before. When Foreman learns what House did, he takes of on a self-righteous tirade nearly accusing House of racism. This is how difficult it is to communicate when some much cultural history and baggage gets in the way. Farrakhan and those who listen to his rantings find it all too easy to believe that the levees where blown up by Bush.