No joke.
Now I think it's important to say that I'm a black American. Onwards to my thoughts:
This is more stupid than Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Kevin Federline mashed together. No one in this country was a slave during the American slavery period, and no one in this country owned slaves during that period. I was never a slave, and you were never a master.
The idea of reparations is a joke. The government already owes a massive debt to the American public (I'm talking trillions of dollars). No one who is alive right now was a slave, so what would we be receiving money for? It's a good thing that this bill is at least semi intelligent in not advocating reparations.
I guess John Q. Public should apologize to the Chinese for the clothes he's wearing, the German and Russian man should apologize to the Jews, the Japanese man to the Chinese woman, my Chinese friend (born and raised here) to a Tibetan, and the British to half the damn world.
Stupidity has reached a new level in the American government, and I never thought that that would be possible.