Loving a Country That Lets You Down

Black Americans have held anger and love of country at the same time

Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is counting down the days to America’s 250th anniversary in a solemn fashion. His newest book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, challenges the public to see the nation’s upcoming celebration as a reminder of harmful patterns and broken promises, and a call to seek better.

Glaude also po…