Inequality in Kansas and the U.S. threatens to swamp us all. We must look out for one another.

Inequality in Kansas and the U.S. threatens to swamp us all. We must look out for one another.

Columnist Mark McCormick stands among the crowd at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Jan. 12, 2023. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that as long as poverty existed, he could never be rich, even with a billion dollars. “As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than 28 or 30 years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checku…