
White college kids would not smoke weed in their dorms while their black peers caught mandatory sentences for selling it to them. A space launch would not be hard followed by a riot. There would no longer be too many people who count their wealth in the multimillions and too many who live hand to mouth. There would no longer be those who are taught Latin and those who are barely taught to read.

They wouldn’t disappear-no country on Earth can claim that-but some things would no longer be considered normal.

“If the virus and the inequalities it creates were ever to leave us, America’s extremities would fade.
