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2020-06-14 Home Front: Culture Wars
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BLM: Blood, Lies, Money
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[American Greatness] - When its name is mentioned on the small screen or featured by the established media, the Black Lives Matter movement is treated as a populist uprising of black youth and their allies against the merciless boot of police repression. But there are organizations, many of them in fact, that are collecting money on behalf of BLM and then distributing those dollars in ways that would surprise the average Instagram warrior urging friends to give.
Of course, many of these donors are none too concerned about how that money is spent given that their motivation for chipping in is the expiation of their guilt for not being oppressed enough. And now that the spigots of guilt are flowing freely, there are numerous BLM copycat groups that have opened GoFundMe accounts and no one knows where that money is going. So if the reader is planning to donate to this slush fund for fake outrage, make sure it isn’t going to a guy in Vancouver raising cash for more Playstation games and Gatorade.
Shaun King, the Carrot Top of the civil rights movement, has been so defensive of what he does with fundraisers for the families of blacks killed by police like Tamir Rice that he has threatened legal action against (actual) black activists who criticize him. But there have been rumblings periodically from supporters of the BLM movement about what they see as the opaque and secretive nature of BLM the actual organization. Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters recently published the news that BLM’s #DefundThePolice initiative organizes its donations through ActBlue, the national fundraising arm of Democratic campaigns including the presumptive presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. It may not be presentable to say in public, but honest observers cannot help but remark that this "civil rights movement" seems to be just as much about greenbacks as it is about black lives.
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The history of the BLM movement has been told and retold many times but, in short, it was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013 in the wake of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. King and other icons of the movement like DeRay Mckesson, Johnetta Elzie and Hawk Newsome came along later. BLM was always loosely structured and it currently has fourteen chapters listed on its website in the United States, and two in Ontario, Canada. Other parallel movements exist in the UK, European Union, and elsewhere. So which organization receives the money that is donated?
There is a BLM Foundation in Santa Clarita, California, but it only had assets totalling $206 thousand in 2017. In 2016 the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy pledged $100 million in a "pooled donor campaign" lasting six years to the Black-Led Movement Fund (managed by Borealis). The same report showed that another $33 million was injected from George Soros’ Open Society Institute and the Center for American Progress. Accepting money from the CAP, a partisan think tank founded by Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign chairman John Podesta and headed by Clinton aide Neera Tanden, makes it a partisan effort. In CAP and CAP Action Fund’s IRS disclosures for until the latest in 2018, however, there is no listing for donations to BLM. The pledges from CAP attracted criticism even from the socialist Jacobin website, which featured them in an article on the "Perils of Liberal Philanthropy."
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