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“…an American identity that can unite us all is worth fighting for. Our country has urgent problems, and solving them requires the civic solidarity that thinking of ourselves as Americans helps to create. The historian Richard Slotkin has observed that a workable American identity must join both the descendants of the Indigenous and those who dispossessed them, the line of the enslaved and those who possessed them, those who can trace their lineage beyond the Revolution and the newly arrived, the natural-born and the naturalized; a teeming profusion of races, cultures, classes and religions. It is a challenge and a burden. It is also, though, a blessed inheritance.”

Ezekiel Kweku is a special projects editor at Times Opinion and a first-generation American.

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