If former slaves are given money, then I should be able to collect from the German government for what they did to my relatives (and ancestors) in Europe both prior to, during, and after WWI and II. Not to mention the Soviet Union, after all they murdered 40,000 Poles in the Forest of Katyn, some of which I'm sure I'm distantly related to.
Come on; it's ludicrous to give money to people for what happened to their ancestors. (and if any was to be given, it sure as he\\ shouldn't be the government, but the ancestors of the slavers that brought the slaves from their native country. Let those who performed the actions be accountable for them.)
It's in the past, it was terrible, it has been over for more than 100 years.