Posted on 08/16/2016 6:42:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.
That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“Released Aug. 1, the platform also calls for defunding police departments, race-based reparations, breaking, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a “universal basic income,” and free college for blacks.”
Let’s throw more Miracle Gro on the weeds.
Great Tee shirt for sale on Drudge. at restaurant— “ BLACK OLIVES MATTER”” I have to buy one!!
....shake down with Odungo help...NO DOUBT!
wow. just wow.
defund police departments? so we won’t have police anymore???
Can you imagine how lawless the ghetto will become without any police involvement??
reparations for slavery??? ok, good luck with that.
voting rights for illegal aliens? What does that subject have to do with blacks; why is that part of their platform??
fossil fuel divestment?? Don’t the homeboys need to get gas in their Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades??? Are they serious?? and what does this have to do with blacks and allegations of police brutality and all that anyway???
An end to private schools and charter schools?? why?? Does that include some private Historically Black Colleges and Universities????
Don’t we already have a universal basic income through all the various public assistance programs for the needy???
Are these gang bangers from the ghetto really going to do anything if they got a free college education??? Heck the needy already get various grants and scholarships, esp. if they are part of some recognized minority.
We might have to dodge bullets to vote.
There is a reason Obama is working so hard to import select military age refugees
the few at the top are going to be RICH
OH THAT IS so cool. I wish I had your Talent. Thank you. That makes me smile — no Laugh. This has been a huge day for Trump. I see it coming like a train.
The 3 black lesbos who founded it are going to be rich.
ping!
I foresee a bunch of spinning rims and gold grills in the future for BLM leaders....
The 100 mill could foretell the end of BLM....
All those “aint got no money” whiners fighting over that pot of gold?
The internecine warfare will go thermonuclear.
And most whites walk around in a daze...
BLM wants to attack the rich people. Should be interesting when Rodeo Drive burns down.
Can you imagine how the People would react to this lawlessness if they realized that they were now in charge of their own fate?????????
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