Independence Day quote

Feeling patriotic...I thought I'd share a quote I recently came across in the book A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren...

I am an American. My nation was founded on land theft and countless broken treaties, on the suppression, exclusion, etnic cleansing, and near eradication of the people who inhabited this land [Native Peoples]. And having stolen the land, my forefathers prospered on the subjugation and enslavement of another people [African slaves]. Now, my country dominates the world and sees American self-interest as its "prime directive." Everything I know of God tells me that God was outraged by the atrocities of my European ancestors and brokenhearted for the victims, and that God remains outraged by American arrogance today. But what is God to do? Forever curse Americans, refusing to assist them, refusing to respond when we sing "God Bless America"? Should God forsake American children and grandchildren to a hundred generations because of the original American holocaust? Wouldn't God's blessing of a nation so conceived imply an endorsement of the atrocities that were and are committed?