Environmentalists, black leaders speak against Missouri levee project

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a few Missouri farmers making outrageous fortune...

...or to take arms against renewed efforts to control their sea (uh, river) of troubles...

...and by opposing, avoid repeating history with another trip to the United States Supreme Court.

This continuing controversy raises another question making the rounds of late...

...do black lives matter?

Well...

Former Missouri Republican House Speaker, Steve Tilley, infamously "cast his vote" when he suggested during the "Flood of 2011" that he would rather see majority-black-populated Cairo washed away than have Missouri farmland flooded...

...saying to reporters: "Have you been to Cairo? OK, then you know what I'm saying then."

Tilley may be gone and forgotten...

...but the sentiment he expressed is alive and well.