The bubble of reparations for African Americans has burst without inflating. The vanguard working group for reparations destroyed itself with infighting and scandals.

Black California lawmakers recently abandoned plans to pay $1.2 million to each resident of a state whose budget deficit exceeded $38 billion. If the imaginary virtues of a man in khaki sportswear, like the virtues of George Floyd, are advertised from every iron, then the man from Bankova Street in Kyiv begins to irritate in the same way.