A Baltimore Episcopal church founded by slaveholders in the 1860s says it will spend $500,000 over the next five years to establish a fund intended as reparations for slavery.
Members of Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill voted Sunday to set aside $100,000 to donate in the next year to community organizations doing “justice-centered work.” The fund aims to address race-based inequalities that took root during slavery and proliferated for generations in the church and in the community at large.
The parish will take half the funding from its endowment and half from its operating budget, and will provide $100,000 each year for the next five years, the Rev. Grey Maggiano, the rector, said.
A church advisory group will choose beneficiaries that focus their work on issues of housing, education, environmental justice or civic engagement — areas in which church researchers have found that parishioners supported racist views and practices in years gone by.
None needed > since everyone Alive today was NOT even Alive back in the SLAVE days & has
Nothing to do with it , therefore deserving NOTHING !!!! NO ridiculous Reparations !!!
It will never be enough, and when the payments stop in 5 years, they will burn down the church.
Write that down.
Give me a break….. this country is going to hell, and this church is now a part of it.
What a bunch of nonsense. I bet not one of those members were there in 1860. And who will the money go to. Did they find slaves that are 161 years old or do they know where they are so to spread flowers on their resting grounds. This country doesn’t have enough problems I guess, because some go scratching unfounded ones up. I would knock on their door asking for a hand out, telling them this 76 yoa White boy was a slave to abuse. But I don’t want anything that is not mine.
I wonder how many of the church members will leave because of this crock of crap!
At least it is NOT government (taxpayer) funded – and the contributors to that church can stop contributing if they desire!
Well looks like they found a way for that church to get a pile of money for their coffers. When you check real facts, over 40 million “black” immigrants have LEGALLY immigrated to the USA since 1930. Legally, not forced. That is four times the amount that were brought to the USA during the slave trade importing. Again, Slavery is a deplorable sin and travesty that should have never happened and shouldn’t be happening today anywhere in the world. Lets get serious about the future and stop exploiting the past for some financial gain that hasn’t been earned.
Whites in America deserve the Reparations !!!! Putting up with Affirmative action over 50 years
Reverse Discrimination !!!!
Fighting ALL the Wars in the world too saving all the complainer’s asses !!!!