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The Boston Task Force on Reparations called on “White churches” to step up and pay the Black community back for racial inequities that root back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, according to reports.
The Boston Globe reported that Black and White clergy members met in Roxbury for a press conference intended to be held outside, though it was instead held in the basement of the Resurrection Lutheran Church on Saturday because of rain.
The commission was established through a 2022 Boston City Council ordinance and made up of 10 members, including two from the youth community.
The report explains that the Boston activists blasted out demands in February, calling for the city to “fully commit to writing checks” and for a $15 billion payout, as they claimed the city’s wealth was built on slavery.
Rev. Kevin Peterson tried to put pressure on Christians to pay up, declaring, “We point to them in Christian love to publicly atone for the sins of slavery and we ask them to publicly commit to a process of reparations where they will extend their great wealth — tens of millions of dollars among some of those churches — into the Black community.”
They then sent out letters to several churches in Boston, trying to drum up support for reparations.
The letter reportedly calls on churches to shell out cash payments while also helping to create affordable housing and back new financial institutions “in Black Boston.”
Fox News further writes:
During the conference, Peterson reportedly advocated for the $15 billion to come in three distinct types of payments.
One form of payment would be $5 billion of cash payments to Boston’s Black residents, another would be $5 billion to invest in new financial institutions, and the remaining $5 billion would go toward addressing the racial disparities in education and anti-crime measures.
The amount is more than three times the annual budget in Boston, which was set at $4.28 billion for fiscal year 2024.
Watch below, as Boston Reparations Task Force member L’Merchie Frazier told Fox News Digital they should have compensation for “every second” of “enslavement,” and then touted that doesn’t even include the “mental effects.”
A group of Black and white clergy members gathered Saturday in Roxbury to call on “white churches” in Boston to back reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade and provide financial support for an effort by investing in the city’s Black community. https://t.co/WRt8vZZVs5
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) March 24, 2024
Boston activists seeking $15B in reparations, call on ‘White churches’ to commit to extending wealth https://t.co/NlJS7TGSgo
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 25, 2024
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