After Notre Dame fire, a GoFundMe ensured black churches burned in Louisiana got $1.6 million, too

[Demovictory9]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/church-fires-st-landry-parishmacedonia-ministry

On Sunday, a fundraiser to help three black churches rebuild from arson had raised just below $50,000.



By Wednesday morning, the total had skyrocketed to $1 million.

After the world watched in anguish as the famed Notre Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire Monday, politicians, activists, celebrities and journalists rallied on social media Tuesday to spread word of the GoFundMe campaign for three much smaller houses of worship.

In late March and early April, fires consumed St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church, and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church within 10 days in St. Landry Parish, La. Longtime pillars of the African American community were reduced to smoldering walls and piles of rubble. Authorities have accused Holden Matthews, 21, of setting the fires, and this week, prosecutors charged him with hate crimes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/17/after-notre-dame-fire-gofundme-ensured-black-churches-burned-louisiana-got-million-too/?utm_term=.6240f081bde2

[BigmanPigman]

1. Did Hillary mention the churches in a tweet yesterday?

I think she wanted to bring attention back to our burned churches in the US too. Here it is...

"Other online reminders of the black churches' plight followed, including this Tuesday tweet from Hillary Clinton: "As we hold Paris in our hearts today, let's also send some love to our neighbors in Louisiana."

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/04/17/us/ap-us-fires-black-churches-notre-dame.html

[riversedge]

2. Here it is........she gets lots of credit for steering folks to the go fund me website.....

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

3. That's it! Thanks

She would have been a good POTUS!

[pansypoo53219]

4. what about the mosque?

[malaise]

5. Good question

and what about condemnation from the President

[appalachiablue]

6. So glad Louisiana is receiving this help. Keep it coming.

K & R

[Blue_true]

7. Credit Hillary Clinton for connecting the significance of the two. nt