Spike Lee's: If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise..

[spanone]

on HBO now

just a heads up...part 1 of 2

Spike Lee's new HBO documentary picks up where his Emmy-winning When the Levees Broke left off.

Spike Lee's: If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise

http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A80207

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fascinating and infuriating

[pitohui]

1. i still have stress disorder so don't watch storm shows but will give it a kick

i'm sure it's quite worth watching and i hear the brad pitt interview has already created quite the ruckus in england but i just don't watch these shows because i don't want to aggravate my own stress, which is not doing so well these days, maybe it's an anniversary issue thing

however i think many people will find value in this so i just want to kick it for those who can use it

i really loved the tasteful job lee did w. "the 25th hour" which he used to reflect on 9-11, i know he can handle this

[spanone]

2. it's shameful. how government totally failed. utterly. completely.

down to the formaldehyde in the trailers

[malaise]

3. When the Levees Broke

still infuriates me. Natgeotv also has a Katrina special tonight

[spanone]

4. bu$h* should have been jailed for his lack of anything

[fishwax]

8. saw the Witness special on NatGeo

:grr::cry::grr:

I haven't yet seen When the Levees Broke, but I'll probably check it out this week.

[SwampG8r]

5. if god is willing and the creek dont rise is a racist statement

against american indians

[spanone]

6. really?

differing stories.....

I was told this was from the Creek Indians rising up. I am trying to find this trivia question answer.
Was a reference to the Creek Indians ever found?
Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, (b 1754 - d 1816) is credited with the phrase, correctly written as 'God willing and the Creek don't rise'. He wrote it in response to a request from President Washington to return to our Nation's Capital and the reference is to The Creek Indian Nation. If the Creek "rose", Hawkins would have to be present to quell the rebellion. The phrase might be preserved in his writings.

Look into more if you like.
1) On September 24, 2009 at 00:22 am http://wiki.answers.com/Q/User:Hawcman <0> said:
I am surprised at that answer. I was told a different story by my father who started life on an Idaho potato farm by Irish potato farmers. He thought it came from Irish potato farmers back of the 1700s and mid 1800's during the famines from flooding of the potato crops that produced crop rot. He was pretty sure that the "creek" in this phrase referred to the small river-lets that often ran by the farms in both Ireland and in Idaho did not over flow over their banks and flood the fields either washing away the plant-lings or causing crop rot. Idaho had some bad floods when he was a kid in the 1920s and 30s.
hawcman

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_The_Lord_willing_and_the_creeks_don't_rise_come_from

[SwampG8r]

7. hawkins seems more credible

than an anonymous potato farmer
i have never heard it meaning anything other than the creek nation
a creek is a very small shallow stream and unlikely to stop navigation

[GeorgeGist]

10. Could be both are true ...

whichever came second was an intended pun.

[annm4peace]

9. I wish PBS could pick this up right away

More people need to see it. Many can't afford HBO and it is so hard to wait.