None of my antecedents were in America during the civil war or slavery, so I guess I don’t have a dog in this fight.
But they were in Slovakia, and the Hungarians ruled over them for a thousand years.
When will I get a check for that.
You’d just squander it on a Cadillac and a forty.
Like me, you're ethnically a Slav. If you look at the etymology of the words, "slave", "slavery," etc. you'll realize how much we're owed in the way of reparations :-)
I'm not going to demand mine in a lump sum. Just a small, say $5.00 royalty, on every time any of those words are used, exploiting the plight of my ancestors.