War=Peace (04-18-2021)
People are finally stopping and taking a look at this phony-ass, fake "non-profit", and seeing it for what it is: a GET RICH SCAM FOR ITS LEADERS.
There’s a fight over the direction of Black Lives Matter. The timing couldn’t be worse
It’s unfortunate and yet somehow also entirely predictable that the airing of Black Lives Matter’s dirty laundry would happen during the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin.
For years, a small group of activists has been asking what the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation — founded by Californians Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, but now solely run by Cullors — does with the donations it collects to fight racial injustice and police brutality.
And in recent months, those questions have become more pointed.
They started with the searing footage of Chauvin’s knee jammed against George Floyd’s neck, his Black body pinned to the concrete next to a police cruiser. And the protests. And the reckoning. Then the foundation revealed that it had raised more than $90 million last year, a good chunk of it from corporations and celebrities trying to prove their antiracist bona fides after Floyd’s death.
A few families whose relatives were killed by police questioned why they haven’t seen a cent. But it wasn’t until the past few weeks that the questions became public accusations.
“Black lives don’t matter. Your pockets matter,” Lisa Simpson declared to reporters Tuesday, longtime South L.A. activist Najee Ali at her side. “Let’s keep it real.”
Simpson’s son, Richard Risher, was killed by Los Angeles police in 2016 in Nickerson Gardens. She insists that the local chapter of Black Lives Matter — the first in the country — promised to help pay for the 18-year-old’s funeral, but that she never received any money, even as people told her they had made donations for that very purpose.
However, in a statement issued earlier this month, Black Lives Matter L.A. said it owes Simpson no money and that it operates “primarily as a power-building organization, not a social service organization” that’s equipped to provide financial help to families.
Simpson was undeterred. “Y’all come into our lives and act like y’all got our back and y’all want to say ‘Black Lives Matter,’” she said. “But after we bury our children, we don’t see B, L or M, but y’all out here buying properties.”
That last bit was aimed at Cullors, who has been getting dragged on social media this week over a story in the New York Post about her going on a “million-dollar real estate buying binge” in recent months.
Cullors is executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which has several official chapters, including the one in Los Angeles. But there are many unofficial chapters too.
On Tuesday, at about the same time Simpson was talking to reporters, the foundation issued a statement, clarifying that she had received just $120,000 since 2013 and nothing since 2019. Citing its nonprofit status, the foundation said it “cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer. Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false.”
Indeed, the story about Cullors buying homes in Topanga Canyon, Inglewood and suburban Atlanta is filled with innuendo rather than outright accusations of grift.
Besides, Cullors has had presumably lucrative book deals and speaking engagements, and has signed a contract with Warner Bros. to produce content for “Black voices who have been historically marginalized.” She didn’t need to illegally tap her foundation’s coffers to buy real estate and I doubt she did.
But the optics of it all are still bad.
I’m no crisis public relations specialist — and I certainly hope Cullors, who declined an interview request, has hired one by now. But it’s clear that, for the sake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there’s a larger conversation that needs to happen about transparency, accountability and expectations.
On Sunday, for example, Tory Johnson, the founder of an unofficial Black Lives Matter chapter in Huntington Beach, said he was shocked that Cullors — again, predictably — had released a statement distancing the foundation from his counterprotest of a “White Lives Matter” rally. The NAACP did the same.
“BLM, big corporate monster that they are now, they don’t support me,” Johnson lamented.
~ Cullors, in her statement Tuesday, blamed such fears of fraud on “right-wing forces intent on reducing” the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement. And, indeed, racists and other online trolls have reveled in stoking those fears, with hate speech and without evidence — to the point that she deactivated her Twitter account this month.
~Is it fair that Cullors is making money off of her reputation, built in large part by advocating for justice for slain Black men and women, while Simpson is struggling to make ends meet? Absolutely not.
While it may have been true in the past that Black Lives Matter didn’t have the resources to operate like a social service organization, it clearly does now, thanks to the influx of donations last year. The families of victims should be compensated in some way.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...oney-nonprofit
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York chair Hawk Newsome questions how much Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has contributed to charity .
https://thegrio.com/2021/04/12/blm-i...s-real-estate/
IT'S NOT JUST HER.....
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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War=Peace (04-18-2021)
Wasn't John Wilkes Booth a DEMOCRAT?
Grokmaster (04-19-2021)
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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You can blow up words so bid they can’t fit the page. MEANINGLESS. There isn’t a goddamn thing that dumb motherfickers like YOU can do about BLACK LIVES MATTER OR ITS EXPONENTIAL GROWTH.
BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A CASE STUDY IN A NEW KIND OF LEADERSHIP - HERE IS HOW THE MOVEMENT GREW TO INTERNATIONAL PROMINENCE IN JUST SEVEN YEARS
businessinsider.com
Ever wonder why you never see your expected results from all you “BLM leader” bullshit? It’s because leadership is decentralized , thus attacking leaders won’t help you and won’t bring the organization down. What you and your idiot cronies think doesn’t mean shit
WHY THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT DOESN’T WANT A SINGULAR LEADER
politico.com
If they had a singular leader, you would have killed him by now. They know that because it’s your nature.
MAJORITIES ACROSS RACIAL, ETHNIC GROUPS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, EVEN AMID PROTESTS
PEWRESEARCH.ORG
If you see fracturing in the ranks, it’s because that’s normal within successful organizations. Success breeds imitations.
The good news is there ain’t (eb) shit you can do about it.
Wait until you see all the police reforms that are about explode across the country. Nothing you can do about that either.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Guno צְבִי (04-22-2021)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Guno צְבִי (04-22-2021)
WRONG AGAIN STUPIDFUCK. REGARDLESS OF HIS "KNOW NOTHING PARTY" SILLINESS...HE WAS A DYE DIN THE WOLL DEMOCRAT, AS PROVEN BY:
"... John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern cause. He was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. He was a volunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged the abolitionist John Brown after Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid in 1859."
Last edited by Grokmaster; 04-22-2021 at 12:44 PM.
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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Last edited by Grokmaster; 04-22-2021 at 12:46 PM.
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
blackascoal (04-22-2021)
You should have blown that ignorant shit up into GIGANTIC LETTERS. DING DING DING. �� SCHOOL IS IN SESSION.
Your historical account of Booth being a democrat is meaningless given that it doesn’t account for the historical transitions of the parties. Read your own “proof.” Does that sound like a democrat of today, or is that a Republican? TODAY, Booth would be a Republican, yet you attempt to smear democrats with today’s Republican racism. Blame Nixon.
If that’s over your head I have crayons and finger paint.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
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