Posted on 09/10/2019 8:12:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Episcopal seminary in Virginia has announced that its setting aside $1.7 million for an endowment fund aimed at paying reparations for slavery.
Virginia Theological Seminary, founded in 1823 and based in Alexandria, announced last Thursday that it was creating the fund largely in response to the institution having direct ties to slavery.
Money from the fund is expected to go to projects such as helping emerging congregations linked to the seminary, aiding African-American clergy, and helping to support work by historically African-American congregations.
The Rev. Joseph Thompson, director of the seminary’s Office of Multicultural Ministries, which will oversee the fund, said the fund “has the potential to be transformative.”
“Though no amount of money could ever truly compensate for slavery, the commitment of these financial resources means that the institution’s attitude of repentance is being supported by actions of repentance that can have a significant impact both on the recipients of the funds, as well as on those at VTS,” Thompson said.
“It opens up a moment for us to reflect long and hard on what it will take for our society and institutions to redress slavery and its consequences with integrity and credibility.”
Thomas Craemer, a scholar of reparations and race relations at the University of Connecticut, told CNN in an interview on Monday that the seminary’s decision was unprecedented.
“What I would highlight is the fact that this is the first time that members of an organization associated with slavery (that is, representatives of the perpetrating side), have taken it on themselves to fund reparations to the direct descendants of the enslaved,” Craemer said.
Recently, there has been renewed debate in both political and religious circles over whether the modern descendants of slaves should receive reparations.
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A great waste of money. Virtue signaling can be expensive. The seminary must have money to burn.
Good. I have a relative that died fighting in the Union army to free those slaves - so how much does our family get?
How silly
How did they know the people they’re paying for were not abolishionists.
My people will know for sure that I was pro life. When the word comes down that people were killing babies and legally it will get bad
“Money from the fund is expected to go to projects such as helping emerging congregations linked to the seminary, aiding African-American clergy, and helping to support work by historically African-American congregations.”
What they plan on doing with the money doesn’t really strike me as reparations. When I think of reparations, I think of out and out cash payments to those who had relatives who were slaves - with of course, guys like Al Sharpton getting a cut of the action too.
This instead strikes me as nothing more than glorified white liberal guilt.
So, the money is really being used to subsidize apostate churches that can’t support themselves.
They would be better off using those funds as available grants for small businesses.
I would have said funds for college tuition a few years ago, but I don’t have the same respect/admiration/ near reverence for our colleges as I used to.
Is it Harvard that will have activist David Hogg attending this fall? Hogg, accepted by Harvard, in spite of his poor grades and tendency to lie in public.
And I’m sure the African-American community in Virginia will be very happy and satisfied with this, will express their thanks, and will never ask for anything else again.
My great great great great great great grandparents were slaves in central Europe. PAY ME!
Right as long as this just monthly payments that never end.
Let’s see, there are 1,551,399 blacks on VA. Works out to around $1.10 per person.
"Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty......One Dollar and Nine Cents!"
With fees and taxes taken out they end up with 0.66 - 3/5 of the original.... Oops.... never mind.
I see what you did there.
‘We have to spend this money anyway so lets figure out how to get the most virtue signaling bang for our money...’
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