Far-Left Philly Faith Leaders Back Reparations, Blame Poverty on “White Supremacy”

Recently, a group of more than 100 Philadelphia congregation members met to discuss reparations. Fox News.

The course is part a campaign called “Rise Up for Reparations” and included members from 15 Philadelphia’s religious congregations, who were given “several opportunities to create reparations action plans in congregational cohorts,” Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart.

Washington-Leapheart, Philadelphia’s director for faith-based and interfaith affairs, told Fox News Digital that the root of poverty came from white supremacy:

“We realized that the structural root of poverty is White supremacy, which relies on the exploitation and theft of Black labor and other material resources,” She spoke.

“Reparations is a strategy that both acknowledges the centuries-old cause of our present inequities and moves money and power so that Black communities can finally be made whole,” The director said so.

This course is a great resource. “moral and psychological” healing, according to Washington-Leapheart, who calls reparations “deeply spiritual work.”

“[Reparations] transforms the way we are in relationship to each other and seeks to repair the moral and psychological wounds we all have because of race-based oppression. Reparations provides an important opportunity for healing,” The advocate explained.

Apart from poverty and reparations the course also covered other topics such as “womanist theology” The show “Atlanta“The drama-comedy about Atlanta’s hip-hop scene”

Philadelphia’s program includes this program. Commission on Faith-based and Interfaith Affairs together with an organisation called the Truth Telling Project.

TTP was founded in 2014 to respond to Michael Brown’s shooting by police officers. “hands up don’t shoot” A narrative widely accepted as truthful provably false.

The event featured a member from the National Coalition of Blacks Reparations in America is an advocacy group for institutions and organizations that can be set up worldwide to issue reparations. “return of their seized and stolen land, the capital of their seized and stolen property and assets, the value of their forced and coerced labor.”

In order to continue working on reparations, the Philadelphia commission plans to meet with at most 100 congregations by 2023.

“We believe that we’re well on our way with the momentum we have now,” said Washington-Leapheart.

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