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By on 3.18.07 @ 6:02AM

Ray Nagin is at it again, claiming a plot to keep black citizens from coming back to New Orleans. He might want to consider how people of all colors could be kept away by the city’s crime rate – five times the national average for a city of this size – rather than pointing fingers, which is about all he has done since Hurricane Katrina. 

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Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.

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