{"id":1434657,"date":"2022-04-13T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434657"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:16:06","slug":"black-lives-matter-co-founder-claims-asking-about-allegations-she-spent-millions-in-donations-on-mansions-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-co-founder-claims-asking-about-allegations-she-spent-millions-in-donations-on-mansions-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Claims Asking About Allegations She Spent Millions In Donations On Mansions Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-co-founder-claims-asking-about-allegations-she-spent-millions-in-donations-on-mansions-is-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-9.44.13-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It sure does pay to sow racial division in this country. Just ask Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors, but don\u2019t criticize her alleged financial mismanagement and questionable spending decisions while you\u2019re at it. <\/p>\n<p>At an event in Washington state last week, as part of a week-long residency with the Vashon Center for the Arts, Cullors made clear that if you criticize her or the movement, you\u2019re a racist standing in the way of black women organizers.\u00a0The comments were captured on an exclusive video posted below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t figure out how to protect ourselves. And what\u2019s true often, especially for black women is we don\u2019t protect ourselves first,\u201d Cullors complained in what she described as \u201cstraight-up attacks\u201d in the controversy over BLM finances.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came days after a bombshell report that Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation donations were used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/07\/1091487910\/blm-leaders-face-questions-after-allegedly-buying-a-mansion-with-donation-money\">to purchase<\/a> a 6,500-square-foot, nearly $6 million mansion in southern California.<\/p>\n<p>According to New York Magazine, the home was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/12\/blm-defends-purchase-of-6m-california-home-with-donations\/\">secretly acquired by a shell company<\/a> in October 2020 when Cullors served as executive director for BLM. It makes sense why they\u2019d want to keep it secret: Marxists are not supposed to be swimming in dough, and contributions were supposed to go to helping the BLM cause.<\/p>\n<p>This type of purchase wasn\u2019t new for Cullors: she started spending a fortune back in 2016, three years after she co-founded BLM. As her movement\u2019s evangelists claimed police were murdering innocent black people, she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/\">on a real estate shopping spree<\/a>, buying up four opulent digs for a reported total of $3.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>One of the secluded homes was purchased in early April 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true&#038;s=09\">New York Post<\/a>. The self-proclaimed Marxist ended up resigning from her post a month later, amidst reports on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/blm-transferred-millions-canadian-charity-buy-mansion-formerly-owned-communist-party\">controversial<\/a> spending habits.<\/p>\n<p>Cullors may want to abolish police and prisons, but certainly not the wealth built on the backs of a divisive movement that demonizes police and white people. And when she\u2019s called out, she leans into a strategy of demonizing her critics as racist.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how much Cullors was paid for the residency at the Vashon Center for the Arts on Vashon Island, Washington, as the center\u2019s executive director tells me she doesn\u2019t disclose artists\u2019 fees. But the Vashon School District confirmed it offered $4,000 from an anonymous donation made to Vashon Schools Foundation. The King County government offered another $3,000 grant towards the residency.<\/p>\n<p>The residency included an art installation, Q&#038;A with students at the local high school, and a one-on-one on-stage conversation with radical abolitionist and two-time failed Seattle political candidate Nikkita Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held on April 8, was a masterclass in grievances and identity politics, told to a mostly affluent white audience \u2014 BLM\u2019s core demographic of supporters in the Pacific Northwest. There, according to newly obtained video, Cullors complained about the criticisms against her: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n[My legal team] said to me when I got attacked last year, they said they had never seen that level of attack towards anyone except for a presidential candidate. And that, clearly, the right was polling me and trying to see \u2018Okay, what\u2019s going to be the pressure point for this movement?\u2019 And that was very hard for me to understand. I\u2019m literally just thinking I\u2019m still like, a young, you know, organizer from the valley, with a target on my chest. I\u2019m like, \u2018Why do you care about me?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><\/figure>\n<p>The idea of financial transparency is a new concept and unduly burdensome to black women, Oliver claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it look like to set a standard for accountability and transparency that\u2019s maybe not existed before, and it\u2019s probably unfairly placed upon us. But it is still an opportunity to do something different,\u201d Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>She questioned why anyone would look at BLM\u2019s IRS Form 990, but not that of the American Civil Liberties Union or United Way. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/charities-non-profits\/form-990-resources-and-tools\">document<\/a> allows the IRS to ensure compliance with tax law requirements for exempt nonprofits. It was lost on Oliver that both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/finances\">ACLU<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedway.org\/about\/public-reporting\">United Way<\/a> post their 990 forms online, unlike BLM.<\/p>\n<p>Cullors admitted to not knowing what a 990 was, even though it\u2019s a standard document for nonprofits. She claimed it\u2019s \u201cbeing weaponized against\u201d black women because \u201cmany people don\u2019t even know and honestly don\u2019t care about\u201d the form.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Cullors doesn\u2019t believe <em>any <\/em>of the criticism is legitimate and that her work is more important than following basic rules governing nonprofits. Her goal is to abolish police and prisons, so she should be able to operate as she sees fit. She seems to view any rules that she doesn\u2019t like (or claims to never have heard of) as an undue burden only experienced by black women.<\/p>\n<p>After Cullors complained about the \u201cattacks\u201d against BLM as a nonprofit entity, Oliver said the criticism is \u201cwhy so many folks avoid the nonprofit industrial complex.\u201d Cullors agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 990 structure, this nonprofit system structure, this is like, deeply unsafe,\u201d Cullors said. \u201cLike this is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with. I can\u2019t tell you how many people are like, \u2018Am I next? Like, are they going to do this to me?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If other nonprofit leaders mishandle millions in funds, it likely would happen to them.<\/p>\n<p>The WA Secretary of State Corporations and Charities Division warned BLM to cease fundraising efforts in the state because the nonprofit had not submitted its registration or renewal paperwork. Even after the warning, BLM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/blm-continues-fundraising-in-washington-despite-immediately-cease-order\">continued to fundraise<\/a> in Washington, according to a February 2022 Washington Examiner report. At the time, they noted BLM was out of compliance in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ongoing claims of BLM financial mismanagement, Cullors argues there is a \u201cright-wing\u201d attack that she labels \u201ca misinformation and disinformation effort to not just challenge Black Lives Matter and the organization,\u201d but all black organizers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s an experiment. If they win, then it\u2019s the next black-led organization. And then there\u2019s the next black-led organization, and it\u2019s the next black person who\u2019s leading that. And so it\u2019s so important that we pay attention to what\u2019s happening,\u201d Cullors warned.<\/p>\n<p>But all that\u2019s happening is Cullors working to carve out a new class of privileges. And when things don\u2019t go as planned, she has an audience happy to support her claims of victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>Given that victimhood is a core tenet of race hustlers \u2014 Didn\u2019t get that job or raise? Stuck in poverty? Grades not where they should be? Institutionalized racism! \u2014 her position makes sense.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jason Rantz is a Seattle-based talk show host on KTTH Radio and a frequent guest on FOX News. Follow him on Twitter @JasonRantz and subscribe to his podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sure does pay to sow racial division in this country. 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