Happy Birthday, America. We Need to Talk.

This isn't about whether I love America. It's about whether America has ever loved all of us equally and what 250 years of evidence actually say.Not the sanitized kind of answer. Not the kind that fits neatly on a flag or a bumper sticker. The kind that comes from a Black man who swore an oath to defend this country, and then had to spend decades watching this country decide, over and over again,…