Religious leaders in Boston demand 'white churches' give millions in reparations to black residents for owning slaves - and want the city to pay $15 billion

Daily Mail UK ^ | 3/24/2024 | Nic White

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Religious leaders in Boston have demanded 'white churches' give millions of dollars in reparations to the city's black community.

The activist clergy also called on them to back a push for the City of Boston to pay $15 billion in reparations for its historical role in the slave trade.

The event at Resurrection Lutheran Church was organized by the Boston People's Reparations Commission, which made the $15 billion demand.

[Frank_2001]

Who you callin’ “boy”??? ;)

[immadashell]

Money for Nuffin

The Gibmedats are alive and well in Beantown.

[Slingwing]

Gots ta be Newports and King Cobra and ya gots a deal

[Ge0ffrey]

Massachusetts wasn’t a slave state.

[for-q-clinton]

If a church identifies as “white” then I’d say that church is racist. Just as if a church identifies as a black church.

[Bernard]

There are plenty of cemeteries in northern Illinois filled with graves marked with 17 to 20-year old boys who died in the Civil War. And I am sure that is true all across the country, at least east of the Mississippi.

The racism business will never go out of business as long as there are buyers for the rhetoric.

[HIDEK6]

Are these religious leaders by chance black activists?

[SMARTY]

That’s a move to drive a wedge into Christian organizations. If MY church did that, I’d walk

[HIDEK6]

I figured ELCA was involved.

[Verginius Rufus]

Juneteenth was just the day the slaves in the Galveston area learned that slavery was finished because the war had ended (1865 not 1866). Slavery officially ended everywhere in the US in December 1865 with the adoption of the 13th amendment.

Massachusetts was one of the first states in the Union to abolish slavery. A large part of its white population is descended from immigrants (Irish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.) who came to America long after Massachusetts had abolished slavery--or even after the US as a whole had ended slavery.

Even in the South the large plantation owners were a tiny fraction of the white population. Whites whose families have been here since colonial times might have an ancestor or two way back who owned one or more slaves, but none of their current wealth comes from those remote ancestors.

[Tell It Right]

Massachusetts had 0 slaves as far back as 1790 because the Massachusetts court said that slavery violated the principles of the U.S. Constitution.

[Osage Orange]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDgihVDEko

[Mr. Blond]

The slave markets weren’t closed on Sundays...

[Tennessee Nana]

Good Boston owes me for my ancestor who was a slave in that city in 1637

I’ll take that $15 Billion

[NorthMountain]

Religious leaders in Boston

Is it them, Yogi?

IIRC, Boston was sort of the birthplace of "abolitionism". These "religious leaders" OWE reparations.

[No name given]

That wouldn’t surprise me.

[NorthMountain]

PAcke ‘em in a rusty bulk-carrier, and send ‘em back at the peak of hurricane season.

[NorthMountain]

Money for Nuffin

And yo HO's fe fwee ...

[Swanks]

Since no church up there is sane and they’re all lib turds I say go for it. C’mon libs step up, dig deep and pay up. You’re all self hating whites snyway…

[No name given]

Well said.