"$5 Million Isn't Enough to Pay Every Black Person in America! Aim Higher!"

 In the Land of Fruit and Nuts (California), we have recently learned that America's fruit and nuts may literally be wiped out by flooding, the likes of which hasn't been seen in a lifetime.

But in the brains of many Californians, there seems to be no shortage of fruit and nuts.  So much so that when a proposal came out around the city of San Francisco to award $5 million each to all black people there, they didn't balk!  Now today we read that $5 million each simply isn't enough to pay all the black folks whose great, great grandparents suffered so greatly during slavery times.

Activists on Wednesday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the idea of payments of $5 million per person as "nothing" and "too little."

The demands were made at an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law.

The task force is considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion.

Meanwhile, the city of San Francisco is weighing its own reparations proposals at the local level. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed "unanimous" support for a draft plan of more than 100 reparations recommendations for the city, including a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying Black residents. The proposal would cost non-Black families in the city at least $600,000, according to Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

"I believe that 5 million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational Black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries," one speaker said. "I believe that 7.6 million [dollars] is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational Black American communities."

Foundational Black Americans are descendants of Black people who were enslaved in the U.S. According to the speaker, reparations are overdue for all foundational Black Americans both for the suffering they endured and for helping "every culture get on their feet." He also called for various other reparations measures, such as giving 40 acres and a tractor and colleges agreeing not raise tuition prices for foundational Black American families.

"To try to keep holding foundational Black Americans back from what is due for us is just another form of slavery," he concluded. "It is preposterous and totally absurd."

Here;  '$5 million is too little:' Activists tell California reparations committee to aim higher (yahoo.com)

I wonder if we shouldn't be paying every American Indian $5 million?  For sure every Japanese American that America put in internment camps during WWII should get $5 million!  Also every descendant of the Chinese that we underpaid to build our railroads should get $5 million!  

I've said it so many times now....how long are we going to co-exist with such lunacy?  How long can America survive on printed money and borrowed bonds....cuz we would have to print $100 trillion more if we are going to pay everyone $5 million for all the wrongs done to their great grandparents.