Boston activists pushing ‘White churches’ to pay reparations is ‘absurd,’ says South Side Chicago pastor

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. WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HERE “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,” Rev. Kevin Peterson said during the event. In February, the commission argued that Boston’s wealth was built on slavery and called for the city to “fully commit to writing checks” totaling to a $15 billion payout. The group sent out a letter signed by 16 religious leaders to churches in the Boston...