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Ron Forman, who remade the city's once-decrepit zoo, is head of the private, nonprofit Audubon Nature Institute and has for years been lionized by many white residents of Uptown. Mr. Forman is a rarity in New Orleans, a professional success who has not moved elsewhere. Mr. Forman, a businessman from a working-class background, is not making an explicit racial appeal. Mr. Forman named the city's elite private schools, acknowledging the room's racial homogeneity, then suggesting that not everyone in the city was as fortunate.  