After Notre Dame fire, a GoFundMe ensured black churches burned in Louisiana got $1 million, too

Firefighters and fire investigators respond to a fire at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church on April 4 in Opelousas, La. By Kayla Epstein Kayla Epstein Embedded audience editor on the National desk Email Bio Follow April 17 at 9:38 AM On Sunday, a fundraiser to help three black churches rebuild from arson had raised just below $50,000.

Journalist Yashar Ali asked his Twitter followers on Tuesday to match his donation to the GoFundMe campaign or contribute their own amount.In the past month, three historically black churches in Louisiana were destroyed by a racist arsonist. He has been charged with hate crimes, but these churches need your help. Please join me in donating https://t.co/gj1BcNsGpu

— Seth Meyers April 16, 2019 The GoFundMe page had been set up by the Seventh District Baptist Association last week. The association’s president Freddie Jack told the New York Times that he had initially set a goal of $600,000 but later tripled it to $1.8 million. In addition to the GoFundMe, a local car dealer created an account with IberiaBank and pledged to match donations into the fund up to $50,000, the Daily Advertiser reported. The bank also pledged $6,000 of its own.

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I am really shocked to read about “black churches “,,,does god differentiate between Black & White faithfuls? God created all people equal,,, there’s no such rewards , penalties or punishment for one race than the other,,as in the Bible in Islam(Quran) “all people are born equal”

Thats great! Keep it coming!

What about the other hundreds of churches vandalised this month in France alone?

Does the CNN know about this campaign ? (ChrisCuomo andersoncooper donlemon ...please talk about this GoFundMe for Churches in Louisiana !!! )

I am really shocked to read about “black churches “,,,does god differentiate between Black & White faithfuls? God created all people equal,,, there’s no such rewards , penalties or punishment for one race than the other,,as in the Bible in Islam(Quran) “all people are born equal”

Why these unfortunate incidents are happening? Strange!

Anyone who thinks the two should even be talked about in the same sentence is a laughing stock

Where is WAPO?

One million is not enough! Black communities are in const fear because we have a Hate Commander in Chief in the Oval Office! He didn’t apologize for having he’s admired acuse of burn churches!

Seems like they’re getting more than they’ll need. Would be nice if extra money went into an international fund for houses of worship that have been devastated.

Notre Dame it’s a Catholic Church. Not a Christian Church. You can’t prey inside if you’re member of Benny Hinn, Billy Graham ,Joel Osteen or any other Pastor. They are not allowed to take you to any Catholic Church. Notre Dame will be rebuild with Catholic Money.

The very rich Catholic Church got 600 million within 24 hours. But, yeah, great that the terror victims weren't totally forgotten.

10 churches a week are attacked in France.

Yay! I’m glad there was a silver lining in this tragedy. Also that they caught the guy who burned down the Louisiana churches.

Forget about your GoF*ckMe page...how is the investigation to how the fire started going.

I’m not buying the accident story in France. Reeks of a cover-up.

The churches in Louisiana were targeted because of their religion, not race. Stop trying to frame it that way.

So thy wouldn't have gotten anything without the Notre Dame fire?

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