Republicat Lessons We Will Learn from New Orleans

[richlevy]

I find it odd that the story that some people are latching onto is the separation of a kid from his dog.

At the back end of the line, people jammed against police barricades in the rain. Refugees passed out and had to be lifted hand-over-hand overhead to medics. Pets were not allowed on the bus, and when a police officer confiscated a little boy's dog, the child cried until he vomited. "Snowball, Snowball," he cried.

People are unable to wrap their minds around the concept of thousands of deaths, a number of them from dehydration, in the richest country in the world. The plight of a boy and his dog seems to reduce the horrendous reality to a single manageable scene of pathos.