{"id":1452290,"date":"2022-04-25T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1452290"},"modified":"2022-04-25T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:30:16","slug":"pro-blm-companies-pay-the-price-for-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-blm-companies-pay-the-price-for-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-BLM Companies Pay the Price for Wokeness"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fpro-blm-companies-pay-the-price-for-wokeness%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=1452290&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-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee member calls for the DOJ to investigate Black Lives Matter on &#8216;The Evening Edit.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bruce LeVell, a former diversity leader under the Donald Trump administration, published an op-ed condemning Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and corporations helping to fund the group.<\/p>\n<p>LeVell, a black businessman from Georgia who served as an advisor in the Trump administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/2022\/04\/21\/bruce-levell-commentary-woke-corporations-need-to-wake-up-and-get-on-the-right-side-of-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote the op-ed<\/a> to urge corporations away from BLMGNF as the nonprofit heavyweight comes under the microscope for alleged financial misconduct. LeVell accused the group of intentionally sowing disharmony and racial tension for profit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black lives do matter. I say that as a Black man myself, but the concept isn\u2019t really in dispute among ordinary, right-thinking Americans of any race or ethnicity,&#8221; LeVell wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/2022\/04\/21\/bruce-levell-commentary-woke-corporations-need-to-wake-up-and-get-on-the-right-side-of-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Star<\/a>. &#8220;The BLMGNF does everything it can to cultivate the opposite impression because it profits off grievance politics \u2013 but its narrative couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-data-murders-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>FBI DATA SHOWS LARGE INCREASE IN MURDERS IN 2020 NATIONWIDE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, BLMGNF has intimidated the leaders of some of America\u2019s largest corporations into paying fealty to its harmful and deceptive narrative,&#8221; LeVell wrote. &#8220;Rather than challenging the Marxist provocateurs at BLMGNF, corporate leaders have prostrated themselves and even donated shareholder resources to a cause that is intrinsically opposed to free markets, individual liberties, law and order, and everything else that allows American businesses to thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed also served as a springboard for LeVell to announce his latest venture with Concerned Comminities of America, where he is on the board of directors. CCA aims to push corporations to disavow BLMGNF&#8217;s platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corporations such as Papa John\u2019s and Coca-Cola want to be on \u2018the right side of history\u2019 \u2013 but their leaders made a huge miscalculation by throwing their lot in with a radical, anti-American organization,&#8221; LeVell wrote. &#8220;CCA is offering them a way out \u2013 and a way to put themselves and their companies back on the side of their customers and the majority of the American public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BLMGNF and the wider movement named after the group became a political hot potato after financial leaks showed founders misusing funds to purchase multiple mansions, overpaying friends for services, and more. Additionally, the group&#8217;s call to defund police departments across the country correlates with a spike in violence in black communities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/931\/523\/Patrisse-Khan-Cullors.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 03: Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter speaks at the NILC Courageous Luminaires Awards Honoring 21 Savage on October 03, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerritt Clark\/Getty Images for NILC)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, speaks at the NILC Courageous Luminaires Awards Honoring 21 Savage on Oct. 3, 2019 in Los Angeles.<\/span><span> (Jerritt Clark\/Getty Images for NILC)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the Black Lives Matter press team on April 14 inquiring if they had comment on FBI data showing there was a 32% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>increase in Black murders<\/u><\/a> in 2020 compared to 2019, as well as a comment regarding experts such as the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Heather Mac Donald arguing the BLM and defund the police movements contributed to the murder spike, not the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital also detailed the yearly numbers of Black murders from 2010 to 2020 within the inquiry but did not receive a response from the organization as of Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee member calls for the DOJ to investigate Black Lives Matter on &#8216;The Evening Edit.&#8217; Bruce LeVell, a former diversity leader under the Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1898731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}