Nope. That’s lying to yourself.
Heritage is like a soup. You can pretend the ingredients you don’t like aren’t there, but they are. And they’re part of the flavor. And pretending otherwise is just deliberately making yourself stupid.
America has done some really awful crap. That’s a simple fact. America CONTINUES to do some really awful crap. That’s a simple fact. If you won’t acknowledge simple facts you are willfully ignorant.
I did own any slaves.
In fact my ancestors did not even show up until 1900 or so.
Anyone who tries to pin that on me is evil.