I don't think this is an instance of "the worst parts of history being glorified", which i agree is obviously a bad thing. Companies aren't designing sneakers with nooses on the back.
The problem is that history involves a long slow march of social/political progress, so at any point in the past things will have been worse in terms of rights for all sorts of groups, like women, LGBT, racial minorities etc. Women didn't get a vote until 1920, Jim Crow lasted until 1965, gay marriage is only recently legalized in all states by 2015, so the US can be called racist, misogynist, homophobic (and rightfully so) throughout its history, but that doesn't mean Americans or Canadians still can't celebrate history while recognizing that no country at any point, including today, is without flaws.
I think it does change the 'celebration' of history when we fully consider the impacts of colonialism, industrialization and capitalism/corporatism on marginalized people who suffered from, rather than benefited from those forces.
The attitude ... 'You can all be equal with us now, and we'll all celebrate that history.' ... is not equality at all, but forced assimilation, demanding a pretense of celebration from those victimized by that history, demanding that they reject their own history and 'become one' with their oppressors.
I think they call that 'Stockholm syndrome'. Lol
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