Flamingo Think Tank

After watching Sorry to Bother You a ~very pressing~ question comes up: why horse people? But thinking about it in terms of the rest of the material that we've covered this semester, it seems to make more sense. Particularly in Invisible Man, Beloved, and White Boy Shuffle, surreal things like ghosts, or government assisted mass suicides seem to be useful tools in making arguments about American society. So what are the "equisapiens" being used for? The equisapiens seem to pretty clearly critique capitalism and the dehumanizing effects of factory labor in modern society. Transforming humans into more cost efficient, more effective slaves that are an infinitely replenishable labor source represents the end goal of capitalism, where the producers are valued less than the products they create. The suffering of the horsepeople, and the inhumaneness of their transformation seems to be a clear critique of the way that capitalist systems treat their workers. The equisapiens

In White Boy Shuffle, we see that Nick Scoby (the yeast man {you did this to me Bella}) is an extremely important character in Gunnar's development. His undeniable nerdy or geeky qualities make it easy for him to connect with and accept Gunnar, but he also functions as something as a role model for Gunnar, someone for him to look up to, and helps him become accepted in his new neighborhood. In his role as a someone that Gunnar looks up to, Nick Scoby has qualities that seem impossible, even magical. His most obviously superhuman quality is that he is seemingly incapable of missing the hoop in basketball. His Curry-esque consistency when shooting under any circumstances seems far from what should be possible for a professional, let alone a high school student. He also has the ability to read a bar code and tell the price of the object from it, and he can tell if a person has black ancestry without knowing them (even if they aren't black). In class today (thank you Xanthe), a