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Post-Katrina madness

Immediately after the storm, the media portrayed African-Americans as looters and thugs — Mayor Ray Nagin, for example, told Oprah Winfrey that “hundreds of gang members” were marauding through the Superdome. Now it’s clear that some of the most serious crimes committed during that time were the work of gun-toting white males. So far, their […]