FIRST ON FOX: The Harris campaign last month cut several six-figure checks to left-wing groups that have spoken out in favor of defunding the police, reparations and are linked to radical activists who supported notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

The Harris campaign has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to a handful of black rights groups mobilizing black voters ahead of next week’s November election, according to FEC filings released last week.

The Black Voters Matters Fund, which received $150,000 from the Harris campaign on September 19, has repeatedly called for defunding the police and has been vocal in favor of reparations.

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The Harris campaign distributed large checks last month to groups that support defunding the police. (Fox News)

“The answer to police violence against communities of color is not more money for the police,” the group wrote in February 2023. “It’s time to defund the police and redirect those resources toward building strong, healthy communities.”

In 2020, the group also tweeted: “We are proud to partner with the #DemocracyFrontlinesFund, created to leverage millions of new dollars to fund Black-led organizers fighting for free and fair elections and working to fund prisons and the police. »

“There are more than 3,000 sheriffs in the United States, almost all of whom are elected, according to the group said in another post. “We are working to defund sheriffs and strengthen the power of voters. Reinventing the system also requires action!”

The group’s co-founder, Latosha Brown, who frequently visits the Biden-Harris White House, said posted several times about the group’s reparation efforts and said in a 2021 article that she had been working on the issue for 27 years.

“We deserve to be compensated for the blood, sweat and tears our ancestors were forced to shed in this country,” the Black Voters Matters Fund said. posted in May. In another article last year, the group called reparations “crucial to recognizing past injustices and moving toward a more just and equitable future.”

The Black Church PAC, which also received $150,000 from the Harris campaign last month, has several controversial religious leaders on its board and recent social media posts show it is partnering with a group of police to help “get out the vote” in Georgia. , Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

“We are mobilizing 100,000 strong volunteers: Knock for Change, Vote for Justice in Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina to knock on doors and have REAL conversations with REAL voters about the REAL issues that matter most,” the statement said. Black Church PAC released last week on social networks. The post also mentioned that they were working in partnership with Until Freedom, co-founded by disgraced Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour.

Until Freedom repeatedly advocated for defunding and abolishing the police and sells a “defund the police” shirt on its website.

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Mallory had previously been criticized for her close ties to Farrakhan and for calling him the “GOAT,” meaning “greatest of all time.” His social media profiles are also littered with social media posts showing her attending Nation of Islam events and praising Farrakhan.

“One of the reasons I support Kamala Harris is because I know the things she did when she was in the Senate,” Mallory said during an interview with “Breakfast Club” a few months ago.

Mallory also objected to people who claim Harris doesn’t support reparations, saying she’s heard Harris say “time and time again” that she supports reparations. Although Harris has been coy about what her reparations plan would look like during her presidential campaign, she previously told The Root during the failure of her 2019 campaign, she believed that “there must be some form of reparations” for Black Americans.

The Black Church PAC’s board includes several pastors who have either called for defunding the police, reparations, or praised Farrakhan, including pastors Jamal Bryant, Frederick D. Haynes III, and Michael McBride .

McBride, the senior pastor of The Way Christian Center in Berkeley, California, spoke out in favor of defunding the police in 2020, saying during a livestream that defunding the police “is not a slogan” and that it is a “declaration of a future that we deserve.”

“We don’t deserve to have police departments have 40, 50, 60 percent of the general fund of every majority black or majority brown city in this country when we don’t have food, when we don’t have no housing, while we have no food “We don’t have equitable education, but we have an expanding police budget,”. » said McBride.

“Yes, we want those (police) departments reduced,” McBride added.

Republicans are stepping up their election messages on crime and support for law enforcement. (Getty Images)

“You need to read @mearest @arthurrizer’s article if you want an insight into police culture,” McBride said in another post. “My takeaway: How do you redeem this? You don’t abolish and defund the police and rebuild a new one…”

McBride has also repeatedly supported reparations, including praising a A $15 trillion plan ” this was proposed by Jennifer Epps-Addison, a self-proclaimed “Radical Truth Teller.”

Bryant, who hosted Harris at his church earlier this month, faced backlash for repeatedly praising Farrakhan and saying he was “honored” to be in his presence and “honored” to host him. He also attacked homosexuals and previously said it was their “responsibility” to make homosexuals and other sinners “uncomfortable in (their) sin.”

Bryant is also a longtime advocate for reparations. In a Instagram post Last month, he called it a “monumental moment” that he and another pastor marched from Baltimore to the White House to “draw attention to the administration that black people deserve #reparations for 400 years of oppression.

“We are the only marginalized group in America that has not been compensated,” he added. “We traveled 42 miles because we never got 40 acres! Even if it’s not on the ballot, it needs to be on the agenda!”

Vice President Kamala Harris and Pastor Jamal Bryant at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia. (YouTube screenshot)

Another pastor on the board is Haynes, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church. He tweeted a photo of himself and Farrakhan in 2017, calling him a “wonderful, great man.” In 2015, Haynes also praised Farrakhan, saying he was “a prophetic leader of our times.”

He has also been a strong supporter of reparations and spoke at an event called “Solidarity for Reparations,” held at the church of Harris’ controversial pastor and longtime mentor, Rev. Amos Brown. During the event, Haynes said, “America, you owe us. What you did to us is immoral. You owe us.”

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The Harris campaign also distributed $2,050,000 to the civil rights group National Urban League; $300,000 to the Power Rising Action Fund, an “intergenerational power force of Black women from diverse sectors”; and $250,000 to the National Action Network, founded by controversial MSNBC anchor Al Sharpton, whose ties to Farrakhan go back decades.

At the 2019 National Action Network Convention, Sharpton asked Harris if she would sign the late Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill HR 40, which would form a commission to study reparations for descendants of slaves, if it was adopted and fell on his desk.

“When I am elected president, I will sign this bill,” Harris said at the time.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign, the Black Church PAC and the Black Voters Matter Fund.