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Since then, measured strictly by its own improbable expectations (Forman later upped the ante to $3 billion), the reparations movement has been something of a failure. So far, the Black Economic Development Conference (B.E.D.C.) has collected little more than $300,000. Critics contend that it does not adequately account for the money, and as a result, it has even lost the support of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, which sponsored the Detroit meeting...
...committee, argues that one of B.E.D.C.'s virtues is the ability to "shoot down bureaucracy and get some dollars moving." Many of the dollars have been moving in the direction of one of B.E.D.C.'s main projects, the Black Star Press of Detroit. Its first book, by Forman, endorses "armed struggle and the seizure of state power...
...true impact of Forman's pronouncement, however, is greater than B.E.D.C.'s bank account. Though the manifesto in fact antagonized a good many churchmen, it may have helped release literally millions of dollars for expanded or new programs to aid minority groups, especially blacks. White churchmen generally deny that they are acting in direct response to the manifesto, whose revolutionary appeal they abhor. But in a number of denominations, there is evidence of a heightened effort to overcome the racial and social problems the manifesto dramatized. The churchmen are exercising control over their money and for the most...
Much of the giving reflects the tactical problem faced by white religious leaders, particularly liberal Protestants: how to commit their churches to the aid of blacks without seeming, at the same time, to commit them to Forman's call to a black-led revolution. The experience of Riverside Church's chief minister, the Rev. Dr. Ernest Campbell, is typical. Though Riverside was noted for its active social ministry long before Forman's invasion, it is now seeking to raise $450,000 in a new Fund for Social Justice. The money will be distributed only after recipients...
...manifesto has had other unintended results. The black church itself has split over Forman's tactics, which point inevitably toward black separatism. B-shop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has attacked the manifesto, while the National Committee of Black Churchmen has served as a channel for funds to B.E.D.C. And indirectly, Forman gave the Jewish Defense League its push into prominence: the league's first widely publicized action was its unasked-for "protection" of a New York synagogue supposedly threatened by Forman-like black disruptions...