America's milestone birthdays offer a window into our journey
In a bicentennial day essay a half-century ago, Toni Morrison told a story of her grandparents at odds over progress in America. Her grandmother compared it to the slow-walk of trees, suggesting it often arrives gradually, like a canopy of oaks that climb the landscape generation after generation. Her grandfather saw things differently, believing that growth doesn't mean the nation's nature has changed, or that it ever will. The two elders were realists: Neither papered over the places where the country had fallen short. But for one of them, there were signs of promise; for the other, the project seemed hopeless.
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