I wrote about George Packer's "4 Americas" & how it erases Black Americans & their diversity. White Americans get to be patriots or "social justice warriors," whereas Black Americans have no patriotic space of their own alternet.org/2021/06/four-a… 
To be clear, I assign no positive/negative value to patriotism, though I do assign negative values to how it is often employed in white American culture. I am not, myself, patriotic.
I do not think--nor would it be my place to think--there is greater value in Black American patriotism than in any other estimation of the U.S., either neutral or negative
I *do* think it is reprehensible that Black American patriotism is erased from our national narrative
I *do* think it is reprehensible that Black American patriotism is erased from our national narrative
Black Americans hold diverse views about the U.S., just as white Americans do. There are also many Black Americans who are critical of the U.S. and are also patriotic.
It's very problematic to confound anti-American-racism w/ anti-Americanism in general.
It's very problematic to confound anti-American-racism w/ anti-Americanism in general.
Again, I'm not a patriot, myself. I don't think it's good or bad to be patriotic or not patriotic.
I *do* think it's bad to exclude Black people from the ideological space of patriotism.
I *do* think it's bad to exclude Black people from the ideological space of patriotism.
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