While regular Americans reflect on the greatness of this remarkable country as we approach its 250th birthday, moonbats twist its history into a pageant of shame to justify looting on a massive scale. Gateway Pundit reports from New York, where both the state and NYC are moving forward with “reparations” — i.e., direct cash handouts for being black, justified by America’s injustice:

FOX News caught up with activists following a New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies last Saturday and asked them several questions, including how much the reparations should cost.

One floated the figure of $800,000 apiece.

New Yorkers had differing opinions on what such payments should look like, however. One thought it should operate like a central bank for black people.

“I think it should be, me personally, I think there should be a new Freedmen’s Bureau back, and that is like a central bank almost to Black America and would be distributed to Black communities,” Rex Burns said.

Others said the state government should write a check.

Slavery has not been legal in New York State since 1827, when the last 4,600 slaves were emancipated.

Checks for $800,000 will not satisfy their locust-like greed but only whet their appetite:

“It shouldn’t only be a check, but it should start with a check,” Brooke Lean told Fox News.

In addition to ever more privileged treatment, they will require more checks. If the $trillions looted through the welfare state do not suffice, nothing ever will — not so long as a single penny remains for liberals to confiscate and bestow upon them in reverence for the sacred oppressedness of their distant ancestors.

On a tip from Wiggins.