It turns out that when you offer people $5 million, they'll want more.
"A TRACTOR" LOL.
Look at that long list of demands!!
Dude is bonkers!
But he wasn't the only one:
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."
Whoever these "activists" are, they clearly must be very well-off to turn down five million bucks. I think something else is going on here.
There are a few proposals on the table here. The state-commissioned reparations task force is weighing whether or not to gift $360,000 to each resident with at least an ancestor who was a slave; the San Francisco government, meanwhile, is considering a possible $5 million payout for qualifying black residents.
Neither is apparently enough, according to protesters at the California Reparations Task Force this week:
"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."
I'd, um, really like to see the specific mathematical formulas used to come to the $7.6 million figure. That is astonishingly specific.
I have a feeling that this is a Knights of Ni situation.
First, you offer them a shrubbery, but then they'll want another shrubbery – a nice looking one! – but slightly higher so they can get the two-level effect with a little path running down the middle.
Then when you finally find them that shrubbery, they'll want you to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest...
With a herring.
The whole process, meanwhile, is giving us plenty of insight into the workings of California, and not just because the state is an absolute death-trap of woke insanity.
As one speaker at the task force noted, a $5 million payout over 50 years only adds up to $100,000 per year — and then California's exorbitant tax structure has to take a bite, too:
"[With taxes] you'll be lucky if you end up with $40,000 a year."
