{"id":1818166,"date":"2023-01-21T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818166"},"modified":"2023-01-21T07:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:41:34","slug":"far-left-philly-faith-leaders-back-reparations-blame-poverty-on-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-philly-faith-leaders-back-reparations-blame-poverty-on-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left Philly Faith Leaders Back Reparations, Blame Poverty on &#8220;White Supremacy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-left-philly-faith-leaders-back-reparations-blame-poverty-on-white-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjg4MDM2MC9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY4NDEwNTQyNn0.zsdveloc8PD8SnIE_SbVwPzicWg1FY7xuK959vo_k9g\/img.png?width=1200&#038;height=600&#038;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C59\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Recently, a group of more than 100 Philadelphia congregation members met to discuss reparations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/philadelphia-faith-leaders-organize-advocate-reparations-official-blames-poverty-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The course is part a campaign called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/centercityresidents.org\/event-4857680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rise Up for Reparations<\/a>&#8221; and included members from 15 Philadelphia&#8217;s religious congregations, who were given &#8220;several opportunities to create reparations action plans in congregational cohorts,&#8221; Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart.<\/p>\n<p>Washington-Leapheart, Philadelphia\u2019s director for faith-based and interfaith affairs, told Fox News Digital that the root of poverty came from white supremacy:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reparations is a strategy that both acknowledges the centuries-old cause of our present inequities <em>and<\/em> moves money and power so that Black communities can finally be made whole,&#8221; The director said so.<\/p>\n<p>This course is a great resource. &#8220;moral and psychological&#8221; healing, according to Washington-Leapheart, who calls reparations &#8220;deeply spiritual work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[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,&#8221; The advocate explained.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from poverty and reparations the course also covered other topics such as &#8220;womanist theology&#8221; The show &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta<\/a>&#8220;The drama-comedy about Atlanta&#8217;s hip-hop scene&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s program includes this program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/departments\/faith-based-and-interfaith-affairs\/commission-on-faith-based-and-interfaith-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission on Faith-based and Interfaith Affairs<\/a> together with an organisation called the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetruthtellingproject.org\/about-us\/#our-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth Telling Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TTP was founded in 2014 to respond to Michael Brown&#8217;s shooting by police officers. &#8220;hands up don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; A narrative widely accepted as truthful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/poll-public-broadly-unaware-that-hands-up-dont-shoot-was-disproved\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provably false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured a member from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncobraonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Coalition of Blacks<\/a> Reparations in America is an advocacy group for institutions and organizations that can be set up worldwide to issue reparations. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In order to continue working on reparations, the Philadelphia commission plans to meet with at most 100 congregations by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that we\u2019re well on our way with the momentum we have now,&#8221; said Washington-Leapheart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Like Blaze News? Get stories like these straight to your inbox by signing up for our newsletters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/newsletters\/theblaze-articlelink\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out the most recent video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a group of more than 100 Philadelphia congregation members met to discuss reparations. Fox News. The course is part a campaign called &#8220;Rise Up for Reparations&#8221; and included members from 15 Philadelphia&#8217;s religious congregations, who were given &#8220;several opportunities to create reparations action plans in congregational cohorts,&#8221; Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart. 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