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Activist leaders in Boston demanding “White churches” pay reparations to the city’s Black community “is really absurd,” said a pastor from the South Side of Chicago.
“They’re playing on people’s guilt and shame and trying to shame them into doing something, trying to guilt them into doing something,” Pastor Corey Brooks told Fox News. “I don’t want anybody doing anything for me out of shame and out of guilt.”
During a March 23 event at the Resurrection Lutheran Church, the Boston People’s Reparations Commission, which was established in 2022, called on “White churches” to do their part and pay “tens of millions of dollars” in reparations.
Rev. Kevin Peterson had stated: “We call sincerely and with a heart filled with faith and Christian love for our White churches to join us and not be silent around this issue of racism and slavery and commit to reparations.”
During February, the commission asserted that Boston’s prosperity stemmed from slavery and advocated for the city to “fully commit to writing checks” amounting to a $15 billion payout. The commission circulated a letter signed by 16 religious leaders to churches across the Boston region, requesting backing for reparations. Pastor Brooks has been against the idea of reparations, and finds the notion to be even more incredulous when asked by Christian leaders during Easter.
Brooks told Fox News: “As Christians, we’re taught to believe that we’re one. We’re not Black and White… So here we are, when we’re supposed to be celebrating oneness and coming together in unity, and now we’re looking at our brothers and sisters and saying to them, ‘You owe us. We’re victims.’”
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