{"id":1654442,"date":"2022-09-23T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654442"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:10:06","slug":"talcum-xs-latest-nonprofit-looks-like-yet-another-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/talcum-xs-latest-nonprofit-looks-like-yet-another-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Talcum X&#8217;s Latest Nonprofit Looks Like Yet Another Scam"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftalcum-xs-latest-nonprofit-looks-like-yet-another-scam%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=1654442&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><\/div>\n<p>Deray McKesson wrote a lengthy piece criticizing Shaun King\u2019s leadership and management skills three years ago. Here\u2019s a bit of what he <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@deray\/on-shaun-king-351bd812318c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Shaun has followed a uniform pattern over the years, a pattern that has compelled me to speak up, again. This is not the first time I have done so, and I am not alone. Johnetta Elzie and I were in a previous\u00a0<a class=\"bb cn kd ke kf kg\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deray\/status\/676174765179215873?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public disagreement with Shaun<\/a> about issues of transparency and ethics that ended in his apology. Shaun also deleted all of his tweets and noted that he would focus on journalism and would not engage in attempted organizing or fundraising. Importantly, he made this commitment to others both publicly and privately. It is clear now that he did not keep those commitments and after a brief hiatus, re-emerged and began engaging in the same behaviors that caused the last public conflict\u2026<br \/>I tried previously to engage offline to resolve these tensions, but his behaviors did not change. There is a formula that he employs when people ask questions or highlight contradictions: issue an unconditional denial, attack the character of the person asking questions, argue that white supremacists are attacking him or his family, respond only to the least salient of all points raised, then issue a statement akin to an apology.<\/p>\n<p>But he does not often\u00a0<em class=\"kh\">answer\u00a0<\/em>any of the questions or offer any resolution of contradictions raised, but instead, deflects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then two years ago in May 2020, the Daily Beast published a lengthy story criticizing King\u2019s habit of starting new group\/fundraising entities and rarely following through or delivering on <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2020\/05\/26\/daily-beast-best-shaun-king-terrible-manager-resources-n343194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what he promised<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When Shaun King and progressive journalist Benjamin Dixon launched an ambitious multimedia reboot of Frederick Douglass\u2019 abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, last February, it was celebrated across social media by prominent voices, including Susan Sarandon, Michael Eric Dyson, and Megan Mullally. A month later, the company boasted on Twitter that it already had \u201cmultiple angel investors\u201d and more than 30,000 subscribers contributing $5 per month for students and $10 a month and up for the general public\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But 14 months after launching, almost none of what King promised to build has appeared and the site has struggled with issues that alienated many subscribers. The headquarters and television studio was quietly shuttered last summer, and all Atlanta-based staffers laid off. The mobile app disappeared for over a year, and the \u201cfull news site\u201d displays branded The North Star apparel for sale alongside relatively scant original journalism\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While it should be noted that no criminal or civil charges have ever been filed against King, the story\u2014in the words of former employees of The North Star\u2014was one of \u201cself sabotage\u201d by him, and \u201creally shady f**king business\u201d with \u201ca liar &#038; a fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep all of that in mind as you read today\u2019s entry by the Daily Beast. It turns out that in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death another King-create entity called the Grassroots Law Project took in more than $6.6 million dollars. Where did that money go? As always with Shaun King, it\u2019s hard to tell.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The single largest expenditure the Grassroots Law Project made in its first year was $2,654,434, which the disclosures only state went \u201cto bridge the gap between grassroots organizing and legal expertise to reform the American justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s representatives acknowledged to The Daily Beast that this referred, at least in part, to the group\u2019s flagship program following its launch: \u201c<a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/grassrootslaw.org\/press\/press-release-20200701\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commissions<\/a>\u201d\u2014ostensibly modeled on those instituted after the fall of apartheid in South Africa\u2014that the Grassroots Law Project would go on to help set up in the district attorneys\u2019 offices of San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis system is not broken. It\u2019s functioning exactly the way those who designed and built it intended it to function. It was not built to give marginalized communities justice,\u201d King said in a joint press release with Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner, then-San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin, and then-Boston D.A. Rachael Rollins. \u201cIt was built to oppress them. And moving forward, we must build brand new pathways for truth, justice, and reconciliation. The old ones will never get us there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, more than two years on, the commissions\u2019 online pages appear largely stagnant\u2014much like the initiative itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston district attorney\u2019s office told The Daily Beast that its commission \u201cunfortunately, did not get off the ground,\u201d while the San Francisco D.A.\u2019s office said its committee had yet to hold a single meeting. Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner\u2014whose exceedingly close political ties to King and one of his PACs have gotten him slapped with thousands of dollars in campaign finance violation fees\u2014did not respond to questions about the commission\u2019s status that were left with his office and on his personal cellphone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group now says that only $500,000 was spent on the commissions that went nowhere. So where did the other $2.1 million go? Again, the answer seems incredibly vague. It went \u201ctoward various policy pushes and campaigns for prosecutorial leniency, phone-banking, donations to other groups, and legal defense funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one thing that\u2019s not entirely vague is how much money has gone to Shaun King:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 2020 tax filings The Daily Beast received show King earned a salary of $104,167 as the Grassroots Law Project\u2019s executive director during the group\u2019s first 12 months. But the group\u2019s representatives told The Daily Beast his compensation has since swelled to a quarter-million a year\u2014or, around twice the median compensation for nonprofit executives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is Shaun King\u2019s response to all of this? Well he protected his Twitter account after the story was published so he\u2019s not saying anything. But according to a Daily Beast reporter who followed the development of the story, King definitely knew it was coming and did his best to kill it before publication.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillBredderman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WillBredderman<\/a> hounded this Shaun King story for more than a month, navigating one of the most aggressive legal efforts to kill a report I\u2019ve seen. I was on the emails. It was a nightmare. He turned in a killer story, and their own words say it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfyjSg4X2p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/mfyjSg4X2p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SollenbergerRC\/status\/1572573019348045827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So it\u2019s probably not coincidental that just yesterday, King wrote a long fundraising letter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthstar.com\/p\/why-you-should-consider-becoming?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=auto_share&amp;s=w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the North Star<\/a>: [emphasis in original]\n<blockquote>\n<p>Right now, <strong>we need at least 5,000 new or renewing people to become subscribers for us to even be able to continue our work.<\/strong>\u00a0Without them, I am not sure how we can move forward, honestly. I want to say this very plainly\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Between Shaun King\u2019s repeated grifting and BLM buying million dollar houses and (allegedly) using their fundraising as <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2022\/09\/02\/auto-draft-52-n494147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a slush fund<\/a>, the anti-police left is having a rough year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deray McKesson wrote a lengthy piece criticizing Shaun King\u2019s leadership and management skills three years ago. Here\u2019s a bit of what he wrote at the time. 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