“Ethnic cleansing by inaction”

That’s Rep. Barney Frank’s charge against the Bush administration for not rebuilding New Orleans quickly enough. We’ll chalk that one up to hyperbole because otherwise the claim that (absent a war or an epidemic) African-Americans could be “cleansed” by government inaction would have to be attributed to racism.

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