Marigolds that have been exposed to high amounts of Cobalt 60 have been shown to grow with severe defects. The problem did not start with the flower’s blossoming, with its nourishment, or even with the surfacing of the first sprout. Before it was even planted, it was corrupted. The very seeds of the American Dream were sewn with prejudice, and yet we ask ourselves how its malformation came to be. The American Dream burgeoned in a time of xenophobia and sexism, and thus, its petals are laced with bias and corruption. Corruption and xenophobia are indigenous to all inhabited souls; from Lithuania to the U.S., its petals don’t look that different, and the blossoms particularly flourish in big cities. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, on the surface,