An ironic truth is that most people with slave ancestors also have slave owner ancestors. What do you do? Apologize to yourself?
There were *thousands* of black slave owners. There were even black slave breeders, a practice that was frowned on even then. One of the biggest black slave breeders sold his own children into slavery. Upon his death his will freed one of his own daughters.
How do those facts fit into the apology/reparation movement?