Reparations
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The idea that financial [compensation] for [slavery] should be paid by people who have never owned [slaves] to people who have never been slaves.
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A [fictionary] presumably monetary [delusion], demanded by lazy, whiny, [African Americans] who think the world is out to get them. African Americans however fail to realize that white people need reparations due to their inferior athletic and dancing skills, and their smaller penises.
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(American Race Relations):
The idea of countering the lingering effects of slavery and [Jim Crow laws] on black Americans ([redlining], school-to-prison pipeline, housing and employment discrimination, etc.) with money, Welfare, and/or Affirmative Action.
Popularized by Ta-Nehisi [Coates] in “We Were Eight Years in Power” (2017) -
The two or three dollars you can [inevitably] lose because your order got colossally fucked up at [McDonalds] or [Popeyes].
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