Throwback Thursday: I Do Not Love America

As Theodore DeReese Pendergrass once said: ‘It’s so good loving a country when your country loves you back.’ I’ll let you know when it happens.

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This article appeared on The Root on July 30, 2021.

Somewhere, at a television station I cannot find, there exists a clip of me singing the national anthem with tears streaming down my face.

I was parked a few blocks away from campus, walking to the Iron Bowl, the biggest college football rivalry in America, when a television crew a…