And anyway people aren't interested in apologies, it's just cash and power that they're really after.
Exactly, which is why you never hear politicians say exactly how much is owed before the slate is wiped clean for slavery. They dread there ever being a day when they can’t continue to hold that over our heads to morally blackmail us for money and special treatment- something they want in perpetuity. That’s why you’ll never get a straight answer when you ask them how much it’ll take to make things even. It’s either no answer, or it is exorbitantly high knowing the US could never afford the figure.
Even if they got some amount of reparations, we’d be in the exact same spot in 5 years and they’d be demanding more money. The only way to deal with these people is to stop caving to them and rewarding them for slandering you and your ancestors