New Orleans "Black Diaspora" was an
"ethnic cleansing plot" says Mayor Nagin
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - March 19, 2007 - (ACN) Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans told the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) last Thursday that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is designed to prevent former Back residents from returning and to change the racial makeup and political leadership of the city. "Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere," Mayor Nagin said. He added that certain Whites in power are studying the model of natural disasters to disperse communities of color to change the elected leadership. A conspiracy that we should be wary of here in Los Angeles.
Mayor Ray Nagin, a Black, is in a position to know. He was in the middle of the Hurricane Katrina disaster as it unfolded. In fact, Mayor Nagin knows other disturbing information concerning the sluggish response by FEMA to help the Black population of New Orleans that he is not telling. The reason is that he fears for his life. During the height of the crisis, he publicly told a reporter for the Associated Press, "I fear the CIA may take me out! If the CIA slips me something and next week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened." Later he told interviewers for CNN on a live broadcast that he feared the "CIA might take me out." What does Mayor Ray Nagin know and why does he fear the CIA?
Mayor Ray Nagin is not the only Black leader that has described a similar conspiracy to ethnically cleanse New Orleans of Blacks. In the month of September 2005, the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, said that the New Orleans levees may have been breached on purpose. Minister Farrakhan came forward to say that the levees in New Orleans may have been "blown up" to save White areas at the expense of Black neighborhoods. During a tour of Charlotte, North Carolina to promote the "Millions More March", Minister Farrakhan said, "I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach that it may have been blown up to destroy the Black part of town and keep the White part dry." There is now much documented testimony from former residents of New Orleans stating that they heard "explosions" in the vicinity of the breached levees. Also, laboratory analyses of concrete samples taken from the breached levees showed traces of certain chemicals that are commonly utilized in the fabrication of explosives.
La Voz de Aztlan published five reports in the month of September 2005 that lend much support to what both Mayor Ray Nagin and Minister Louis Farrakhan believe. The first published on September 2, 2005 and titled "Racism is the cause of the sluggish response to help New Orleans" described what the world saw but racist White Americans deny. It was obvious to the world that the US federal government was dragging its feet in providing critical assistance to the poverty stricken Black population of New Orleans. Many countries seeing the desperate straits of the Black citizens quickly mobilized to help. Mexico sent truckloads of food, water and medicines across the border. Venezuela provided over three million barrels of oil to Black families hit hard by the hurricane and Cuba was ready to send 1,500 medical doctors and 34 tons of essential medicines to Louisiana and Mississippi but White House spokesman Scott McClellan said flatly, "We don't want Fidel Castro's aid".
Another report titled "The Great New Orleans Land Grab" was published on September 7, 2005. This report was the first to describe a sophisticated plan that utilized the "cover of a hurricane" to first destroy and than take over the City of New Orleans. It outlines the numerous incidents in which federal agents actually sabotaged rescue operations. It cites instances in which Black homeowners were forcefully removed from their properties and dispersed throughout the country. Among one of the most disturbing incidents that the report describes is a gun battle between the New Orleans Police Department and a group of federal saboteurs out to blow up a leave. The Associated Press reported on this incident but later all traces of the news article were erased. La Voz de Aztlan. however, saved a copy of "The Guardian Newspaper " and the report. There is a link in our report "The Great New Orleans Land Grab" to the now historically valuable AP new report.
Our report titled "COVERUP: The dynamiting of the New Orleans levee system" was published on September 11, 2005. It outlines evidence concerning the sabotaging of the New Orleans levee system that resulted in the flooding of primarily Black neighborhoods. It quotes a significant number of New Orleans Blacks in diaspora who came forward to say the levees were breached on purpose by the authorities. One Black resident, Andrea Garland, now re-located to Texas, said, " I also heard that part of the reason our house flooded is that they dynamited part of the levee system after the first section broke - they did this to prevent Uptown (the rich White part of town) from being flooded. Apparently they used too much dynamite, thus flooding part of the Bywater. So now I know who is responsible for flooding my house - not Katrina, but our government."
La Voz de Aztlan related news reports:
"Racism" is the cause of the sluggish response to help New Orleans
The Great New Orleans Land Grab
COVERUP: The dynamiting of the New Orleans levee system
Bush accepts aid from Mexico, silent on Venezuela but rejects help from Cuba
Minister Louis Farrakhan says New Orleans levees may have been breached on purpose
