The hurly-burly of America’s cultural politics, while important, even vital, can never unravel the implicit social contract of capitalism which says that if you follow the virtues Adam Smith laid out, you will do just fine. If you teach those values to your kids, they will do better than you. That is true of whites, blacks, Hispanics, gays, and everybody else Maya Angelou listed in her no doubt brilliant poem. That in a nutshell is the American dream. There are no guarantees, but odds are in your favor.
This is great, but I think the Jonah of 2021 might concede where that of 2011 may not: the generational durability of disparities in wealth and decline of social mobility are worthy of more proactive public policy. If only relative prominence of social unrest now vs then.
