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_Snowball can’t be blamed, or even subtly criticized, as the people of New Orleans were subtly criticized for being both poor and mostly black–as if these factors had made them responsible for the flood. A dog just yaps, pants, loves, and eats. A dog has no interest in the efficiency of Mike Brown, head of FEMA, or in the political hay to be made of the failure in New Orleans. The dog’s equation is simple: if the little boy is not here, who will bring me biscuits? Also, will I be eaten?

That’s why it’s so easy to empathize with Snowball’s bafflement in the face of something so terrible. This mess has been conflated with so many other things, coming as it does when the country has come unmoored and is floating perilously close to the edge of the world. Snowball puts it back into simple, animal terms and makes it possible for me to grasp a little of what it’s like in New Orleans._

Where is Snowball? Where is the bus? (Ftrain.com)

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