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Black Militant James Forman has been spectacularly unsuccessful in attaining his goal of $3 billion in reparations to be paid to U.S. Negroes by American churches and synagogues. Since Forman first issued his arrogantly worded "Black Manifesto" in Detroit last April, only an estimated $22,000 has trickled into the coffers of his National Black Economic Development Conference. Forman's demands have been successful, however, as a catalyst in moving churches to examine their consciences. Last week another church group demonstrated that the manifesto has not fallen on entirely deaf ears. Meeting in Canterbury, England, the Central Committee...
Generous Response. Like the World Council, U.S. churches and synagogues are tending to react to the reparations demand by reviewing and enlarging their social-work programs. Thus, the American Jewish Committee rejected the "Black Manifesto" but is considering a national ad hoc group to help the poor...
Irrelevant Heaven. Not surprisingly, efforts to establish a spiritual underpinning for black-church militancy have strong political overtones. The Atlanta statement, for example, closed with Eldridge Cleaver's belligerent manifesto: "We shall have our manhood. Or the earth will be leveled by our efforts to gain it." It spoke of a "theology of black liberation, the affirmation of black humanity that emancipates black people from white racism, thus providing authentic freedom for both white and black people." The 16 scholars implicitly endorsed James Forman's reparations demand on white churches (TIME, May 16) by recalling St. Luke...
...major denominations have acknowledged the injustices suffered by the American Negro and have stepped up their contributions to black causes, they have not besieged Forman personally with offerings of cash. The United Presbyterian Church invited him to address its General Assembly last month, but pointedly took issue with his manifesto's threat of violence to obtain compensation from the churches. Even before the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church rejected the demands, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines called Forman's manifesto "calculatedly revolutionary, Marxist, inflammatory, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian." The Forman plan, added the General Board...
...firm rejection by American clergymen of the violence implicit in Forman's manifesto means that the London recommendations may not win easy acceptance at the World Council's next Central Committee meeting in August. After he returned to New York last week, General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council wondered whimsically whether the black militants would be as eager to take over the church's debts as its assets. Even the place where it all began was not inclined to court more trouble. Although Riverside Church has promised to establish a fund for the disadvantaged...