Boston’s Task Force on Reparations wants $15 billion in reparations for slaves and is demanding that “white churches” step up to deliver money to the black community to repay racial injustices dating back to the transatlantic slave trade.
Requests for compensation from the “white churches”
Fox News reported that this was revealed in a press conference Saturday after black and white clergy members met in Roxbury. This came a month after activists called for Boston to “fully commit to writing checks” and making a $15 billion payment, arguing that the New England city’s wealth was built on slavery.
“We ask sincerely and with a heart full of faith and Christian love for our white churches to join us and not be silent on this issue of racism and slavery and to commit to reparations,” the Rev. Kevin Peterson said Saturday.
“We direct them, with Christian love, to publicly atone for the sins of slavery and ask them to publicly commit to a process of reparation in which they will extend their great wealth – tens of millions of dollars in some of those churches – to black people. community,” she continued.
Peterman went on to explain how exactly he wants reparations paid for slaves, asking for $5 billion in cash from Boston’s black residents, with another $5 billion to be invested in new financial institutions. The final $5 billion payment would be used to address what he describes as racial disparities in education and crime enforcement.
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Letter requesting cash payments sent to churches
John Gibbons, a Unitarian Church minister, scandalously claimed that religious officials were among the Boston leaders most likely to enslave people.
“Beginning in the 17th century, all of our colonial churches were founded on the profits of slavery,” Gibbons said, according to KOMO News. “Colonial ministers were among those most likely to enslave serfs.”
Sixteen faith leaders signed a letter demanding that churches provide cash payments and also commit to creating affordable housing and supporting new financial institutions “in black Boston.” The letter was sent to the following four churches, all founded in the 17th and 18th centuries: Arlington Street Church, Trinity Church and Old South Church in Back Bay, King’s Chapel in downtown Boston.
“This is not enough,” Gibbons said. “Somehow we need to move with some urgency towards action and so part of what we are doing is challenging and encouraging white churches to go beyond what they have done so far.”
Related: California just unveiled its slavery reparations package
Boston Mayor’s Slave Compensation Task Force
Radically liberal Boston Mayor Michelle Wu launched the Slave Reparations Task Force in 2022, asking them to provide her with recommendations on restorative justice for Black residents.
“Even after Massachusetts outlawed slavery, our region continued to benefit from slave labor,” Wu said last year. “That legacy formed deep, painful, and enduring systems of exclusion and injustice that persist today.”
Slavery was abolished in this country nearly 160 years ago, and no one alive today bears any responsibility for this practice, despite what leftists will tell you. It is infuriating that slave reparations are still something that is pushed for, and that radical liberals have resorted to trying to guilt-trip “white churches” into paying.
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