You’ve seen the logo everywhere by now. You see it emblazoned on t-shirts and team shirts, billboards and surfboards, buses and bus stops. It’s everywhere.
Black Lives Matter.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), which is widely considered to be the umbrella for most BLM grassroots organizations, raised $90 million dollars in 2020.
Now it may stand as one of the biggest charity scandals in recent memory.
Founding BLMGNF member Patrisse Cullors didn’t waste any time in finding herself in a financial scandal and has since stepped down.
Cullors, a committed socialist and a woman who once bragged she was a trained Marxist, suddenly went to owning over $3 million in personal real estate holdings.
Two of those purchases, making up the bulk of her real estate assets, came after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 — the same year her nonprofit exploded with donations.
Cullors denies that any ‘organizational resources’ went toward the purchase of her properties.
But regardless, it looks like social justice can be a very lucrative business.
We don’t know how Cullors plans to equitably divide her homes to ‘each according to their need.’
Now, there is also no word on who exactly is heading up BLMGNF right now or what exactly is happening to their bank account even as many BLM grassroots organizations are still waiting on their funding from the umbrella group.
Cullors (above), a committed socialist and a woman who once bragged she was a trained Marxist, suddenly went to owning over $3 million in personal real estate holdings.
Who is minding the store?
No one seems to know.
We do know that BLMGNF transferred millions of dollars to a Canadian charitable foundation run by Cullors’ wife, Janaya Kahn, who in turn purchased a pricey Toronto mansion for over $6 million. That mansion also happens to have once belonged to the Communist Party of Canada.
It is so hilarious how the anti-private property collectivists always end up owning the most expensive properties. But I digress.
We also know that even California had such concern about BLMGNF that they put a halt to organization’s ability to receive any more donations until the situation could be further assessed.
Even the corrupt political class is flabbergasted by the depth of BLMGNF’s corruption.
California is still reeling from discovering more than $140 million in fraudulent unemployment payments to death row inmates, including the infamous Scott Peterson.
Game recognizes game.
But’s not just the California.
Indiana’s attorney general equated BLMGNF to a ‘house of cards’ and an ‘illegal enterprise.’
Washington state has also told BLM to ‘immediately cease’ fundraising due to its ‘lack of financial transparency’.
BLM’s charity registration is also reportedly out of compliance in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia.
No one knows anything except that it all stinks to high heaven and there is no doubt that many powerful foundations and social justice worshippers have been complicit in the irresponsibility of Cullors and her cohorts. They sought absolution over solutions.
We call it virtue signaling these days, but that moniker belies the true destructive nature of acts of fake virtue.
It is born of narcissism, and the end result is that the people who really do need the help are left begging for scraps, like the BLM grassroots groups, who say they have seen no transparency, very few dollars and have no idea what has happened to the remaining $60 million still in the BLMGNF bank accounts.
The people who had the good fortune to be at the top when the money started pouring down bought millions in property for themselves. I wonder how many families in Ferguson could be fed, educated and provided with legal representation with that type of money?
I’ll always be wondering, because neither Cullors or her wife or apparently any entity that has donated millions to BLMGNF, seems be curious about the answer.
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Lazy philanthropists on every level are a part of the problem, and there are a lot of people out there who are kind for meaning well, but ought to be ashamed for their incuriosity.
Two of Cullors’ real estate purchases, making up the bulk of her real estate assets, came after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 — the same year her nonprofit exploded with donations. (Above) Cullors spent $1.4 million on this residence in ritzy Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles
BLMGNF transferred millions of dollars to a Canadian charitable foundation run by Cullors’ wife, Janaya Kahn (above left with Cullors), who in turn purchased a pricey Toronto mansion for over $6 million.
They feel guilty for not really wanting to get their hands dirty, to give up their time, or to sacrifice anything of any real significance.
Their implicit trust gives groups like BLMGNF a wide latitude for corruption. So while BLMGNF steals progress right out from under the communities they claim to support, donors get to bask in the glory of absolution. ‘I spent away my white guilt and all I got was this $100 t-shirt.’
The NBA didn’t give millions to BLM and strike a deal to don their brand on the field because the powers that be feel bad about racism. They did it because it made their brand look good, it made them look like they were doing something, when they were doing nothing of import except enriching the poverty pimps who continue to trade on black pain.
Some of the largest foundations in the country legitimized BLMGNF specifically – giving millions but apparently asking for little in return.
The media provided handy-dandy guides for giving for those who wanted to donate but didn’t have the time to do their research.
During the Summer O’ Black Lives Matter, my husband – who, like me, is black – was shopping at a store near our home when he noticed a middle-aged white woman staring at him.
She continued to stare until it made him uncomfortable enough to ask if maybe he knew her from somewhere.
She eagerly replied, ‘Oh, no. That’s not it. I just wanted to tell you…I’m sorry. I’m sorry for my white privilege and I hope that you feel comfortable in our community and I’m so glad you’re a part of our community.’
My husband cringed and replied with a polite, but confused, ‘Thank you?’ and chalked it up to weird people in weird times.
That woman got to move on from that encounter with relief. She had unburdened herself, checked off the ‘absolving my white privilege’ box, and now was free to sashay into the sunset, no longer torn by her crippling white guilt.
Meanwhile, my husband was now burdened with confusion and the discomfort of being not only singled out, but patronized about his own community that he’s been a part of for over a dozen years.
He didn’t need a white woman to make him feel comfortable, and the woman who tried only ended up making him feel more separated from his community, not more welcome.
This is what happens when we seek absolution over reconciliation.
Many BLM donors just wanted the self-satisfaction of saying ‘I did something,’ just like that lady in the store. They don’t want anything else. They don’t care about the aftermath.
That woman used my husband as an emotional tissue and left lighthearted, while he had to figure out what to do with her trash.
Incurious BLM donors using the organization as an emotional tissue have aided in causing more pain to black communities, more disorganization and more bitterness.
Many BLM donors just wanted the self-satisfaction of saying ‘I did something.’ They don’t want anything else. They don’t care about the aftermath.
The grassroots soldiers who are making discernable differences aren’t seeing any of the benefits of this virtue signaling, but they are left holding trash and no one cares.
Patrisse Cullors gets to live in a beautiful, safe home and gift her wife a communist paradise.
The people she claimed to speak up for are still reeling and now living in areas that are suffering the worst crime rates in recent history.
We now live in a time where broadcasting one’s virtue carries more social clout than finding solutions on the ground.
What is happening with Black Lives Matter stands to be one of the biggest nonprofit scandals in the history of our nation, and it has been aided by our obsession with signaling our virtues as a way to claim moral superiority over our ideological enemies.
Every Hollywood celebrity that donated to BLM and every corporation that offered BLM millions in guilt money should be absolutely embarrassed.
They only saw the race of the people involved and left their intellectual curiosity at the door.
Their financial ‘generosity’ will end up impoverishing a movement that could have really meant something to black America had it been handled by honest brokers.
It is a pathetic, dangerous, and lazy approach to social justice.
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