"It was because of the free labor of blacks. It was because of all of the suffering we took and we did that made America so powerful." -- Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman

Chicago is requiring companies that wish to do business with them to fork over information that relates to slavery that hasn't existed for almost 140 years. Naturally, any company that fesses to having participated in the legal activity will immediately be hit with an ex-post facto multi-*illion dollar class action lawsuit.

Lucky for me, I've already been given amnesty for the alleged actions of my ancestors**.

* probably a B, but perhaps even a T
** actually most of my ancestors came over after slavery was made illegal. Those that were here didn't live in slave states, and were too poor to afford them anyway.