November 4, 2016
A TOUGH COUNTRY IN WHICH TO SELL HATE:
Thousands of Donors Raise Nearly $170,000 to Rebuild Black Church Set on Fire, Vandalized With 'Vote Trump' (AVIANNE TAN, Nov 3, 2016, ABC News)
A GoFundMe campaign started on Wednesday to help rebuild Hopewell M.B.Church has raised over $169,000 as of early this afternoon. The amount raised so far has exponentially exceeded the campaign's original $10,000 goal."I've truly been blown away," campaign organizer Blair Reeves told ABC News today. "Donations are coming in from all over the country."Reeves said he is actually from New York and is not affiliated with the church at all, but he felt "compelled" to create the campaign because he felt the church deserved the same kind of monetary support that a North Carolina Republican Party field office got after it was recently firebombed."The animus of this election cycle combined with the potent racial history of burning black churches as a political symbol makes this event something we must not ignore," he wrote in the campaign's description. "Only two weeks ago, the internet came together to help repair a North Carolina GOP field office that had been burned by thugs. Justice demands we do the same now."
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 4, 2016 6:23 PM