Glen Markham holds his son Noah just after his birth by Caesarean section in Covington, Louisiana, on Tuesday 16 January, 2007. As a frozen embryo, Noah was rescued by a team of state troopers and visiting Illinois policemen from a hospital flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina refugee Deloris LeBanks holds her four-day-old son Damion outside the Louisiana Superdome while waiting to be evacuated in 2005.
Does it really surprise you that race and class are a major component of embryonic politics?
Once this region’s politics have passed the embryonic stage, they’ll become more piscine and later, reptilian. If they can get to the point where they’ve evolved rudimentary thumbs, there’ll be a fighting chance for the birth of a viable political system. In the embryonic stage, it is all too easy to get flushed down the toilet along with a bloody tampon.
I’ve never heard it better said than that.