The Lies of Katrina

Many that survived Hurricane Katrina have suffered greatly.  The folks in New Orleans that chose to stay behind or were just flat out unable to leave were faced with trying measures to survive.  But alas, as usual, the human suffering isn't enough, some people feel the need to try to score political points by embellishing.

Enter Randall Robinson writing on "The Huffington Post."

On Friday he wrote that, "It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive."   The story was displayed on "The Drudge Report and an "urban legend" was born.

I can only guess that at some point he was asked to provide some type of verifiable source for his accusation of "black cannibalism" and could not as he now has retracted his statement here.

For those keeping Huffington Post score a really rich white guy (Robert Kennedy, Jr.) claimed on Monday August 29, that Hurricane Katrina spared New Orleans and hammered Mississippi because  of "the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol."

Of course then the levees broke in New Orleans and we haven't heard from Kennedy since.

Now a black writer that claims to be a "social justice advocate" has had to recant his unsubstantiated claim that "black hurricane victims" were cannibals.  One note--wouldn't the white hurricane victims have to eat as well?

Thankfully, idiocy knows no race.

The lies of Katrina will grow, and many are documented already here.

Playing politics with human suffering is always in bad taste and as these two "Huffington Posters" have found out, is usually a bad idea if you enjoy credibility.

--CK Rairden