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MisterNiceKitty

(422 posts)
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 05:00 PM Apr 2021

As a quick follow-up: BLM NY Co-founder is calling for investigation

https://thegrio.com/2021/04/12/blm-investigation-founder-cullors-real-estate/

From the article:
"The head of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York is calling for an investigation into Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors over million-dollar real estate purchases she’s made in recent years."

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As a quick follow-up: BLM NY Co-founder is calling for investigation (Original Post) MisterNiceKitty Apr 2021 OP
Self policing is admirable. Karadeniz Apr 2021 #1
"Million dollar property" is a little misleading as one doesn't plop down... brush Apr 2021 #2
Yes, it's good to clear up these types of questions. But I personally don't have abqtommy Apr 2021 #3
It's my understanding radical noodle Apr 2021 #4
The issue is one of transparency - is this something to applied selectively? MisterNiceKitty Apr 2021 #5
I'm fine with transparency radical noodle Apr 2021 #7
Tamika Palmer blasts BLM Louisville... Breonna Taylor's mother publishes blistering post on Facebook MisterNiceKitty Apr 2021 #6

brush

(58,015 posts)
2. "Million dollar property" is a little misleading as one doesn't plop down...
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 05:54 PM
Apr 2021

a million dollars in cash....no, I think I'll leave this alone.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. Yes, it's good to clear up these types of questions. But I personally don't have
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 06:41 PM
Apr 2021

anything against people who have more money than I do since so many do. I hope this
gets settled to everyone's satisfaction since it is a big distraction.

radical noodle

(8,802 posts)
4. It's my understanding
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 01:15 AM
Apr 2021

she's a best-selling author, an artist, and an educator. It seems likely to me that her purchases of properties were earned legally. Is there some rule that says a female black activist can't earn and spend money?

MisterNiceKitty

(422 posts)
5. The issue is one of transparency - is this something to applied selectively?
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 10:42 AM
Apr 2021

Are BLM donations being used to pay for these homes? Where is the money that BLM takes in coming from? How is it being spent?

Here try this:

https://www.complex.com/life/michael-browns-father-ferguson-activist-request-20-million-from-black-lives-matter-for-organizing-efforts

From the article below

"Last month AP reported that BLM brought in $90 million in donations last year, leading to Michael Brown Sr. to join other Black Lives Matter activists demanding $20 million from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

Brown, whose son Michael Brown Jr., was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 says he and his advocacy group have been short-changed by the larger BLM organization.

'Why hasn't my family's foundation received any assistance from the movement?' Brown asked in a statement."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9473431/BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-consulting-firm-paid-20K-month-LA-jail-reform.html





radical noodle

(8,802 posts)
7. I'm fine with transparency
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 12:23 PM
Apr 2021

but it just sounded too much like a bullshit right-wing hit job to me. They're always trying to make BLM look bad, and don't get me started on their attacks on successful black women.

I don't have knowledge of how BLM is set up or how they use their money, but they've denied having purchased the property and they deny paying her outrageous sums. When I start seeing this posted by right-wing groups on Facebook, I tend to be suspicious of the underlying story.




MisterNiceKitty

(422 posts)
6. Tamika Palmer blasts BLM Louisville... Breonna Taylor's mother publishes blistering post on Facebook
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 10:58 AM
Apr 2021
https://www.wave3.com/2021/04/15/tamika-palmer-blasts-blm-louisville-rep-attica-scott/

From the article:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Breonna Taylor’s mother called out Black Lives Matter Louisville and Kentucky Rep. Attica Scott, using the word “fraud” to describe both in a Facebook post.

“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud, Attica Scott another fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote Wednesday.

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