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The left has \u2013 essentially \u2013 decreed that George W. Bush is mightier than God Almighty. There are no acts of God, only Acts of Dubya. Gerard Vanderleun is pondering this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing,\u201d [Spike Lee] said. \u201cEven today, a large part of the African-American community of New Orleans thinks that those levees were bombed. Now, whether that is true or not, that should not be discounted.\u201d He rattled off past government trespasses\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, in the collective mind of African-Americans, it is not some science-fiction, hocus-pocus thing to say that the government is doing stuff,\u201d he continued. \u201cEven if it didn\u2019t happen, you cannot discount it and dismiss it as Oh you people are crazy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alas, we can and they are. There\u2019s never a disaster anymore in America that can happen as an \u201cAct of God.\u201d No, all disasters are, by default, an \u201cAct of Bush.\u201d On the one hand, George Bush is, in the eyes of many, a stupid and utterly incompetent President. On the other, Bush has absolute power over the winds and the waves and is even now deploying a limitless army of spooks, spies, and repurposed Spetsnaz to listen in on every Americans\u2019 international calls to that transsexual phone sex bank in New Delhi. And, between photo-ops tomorrow, Bush will be taking time out to blow Bedford Sty off the face of the map before swinging by Spike Lee\u2019s Upper East Side townhouse to stifle his dissent with a LAWs rocket.<\/p>\n

A man of Spike Lee\u2019s stature and position should be ashamed to continue to inject the poison of conspiracy into the race issue in America today. But being ashamed didn\u2019t get Spike Lee his position and stature. Being shameless did. Weaving the big lies of contemporary race hustling into movies made Spike Lee what he is. It is working for him and there\u2019s no reason to think shame enters the picture.<\/p>\n

But there is a deep shame associated with New Orleans and you won\u2019t see it any Spike Lee \u201cdocumentary,\u201d or in any other dramatization of the event. Instead, you have to hear it in the voice of Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institute fellow, Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America and the forthcoming White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go read the piece \u2013 read what Shelby Steele has to say. Read Vanderleun\u2019s mournful and resigned prophecy of where it all is heading.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"