Quote from OPTIONAL777:
If as an American, I can be proud of our great accomplishments in the past, so it only follows that I am ashamed of what America has done in the past that was wrong...
I don't feel any shame AT ALL. My ancestors got off the boat in the 1880's. Even if they were here long before that I still wouldn't feel any shame. I'm an individual. If I felt shame, it'd only be for something in which I had participated.