With his nose raised towards the stars, Donald Trump watched the successful flight of the SpaceX mission from Cape Canaveral on Saturday, proclaiming: "We cannot be number one on Earth if we are number two in space." Returning to the White House in the evening, he had only to lower his eyes to see the protesters massed under his windows who were shouting: "I can't breathe!", Echoing the last words of George Floyd , asphyxiated by a police officer during his May 25 arrest in Minneapolis. Two faces of America, one who dreams of infinite heights, the other bogged down in injustice and racism, and who revolts.
The contrast is not new. Trump himself invited the comparison to the 1960s by tweeting: "If the looting begins, the shooting begins," a formula borrowed from the Miami police chief, who in 1967 treated the civil rights fighters of "Thugs". Since the time of Apollo 1, political rights have been granted to African Americans,
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