The American Idea

LZ Granderson: America is more than just a place. It's an idea that brought together a divided polyglot group of people 250 years ago in this country. LZ: If there's nothing greater that binds us together across that diversity, we're literally nothing more than a group of higher mammals with different skin tones babbling on in a given room. What does it mean to be American in the year 2023? I think most people don't have a good answer to that question.