Posted on 04/08/2022 5:53:44 PM PDT by Libloather
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English footballers still 'take the knee' before games in deference to BLM and even Sir Keir Starmer was photographed doing the same in his office at the height of the protests. With those who didn't fall into line risking accusations of racism, few wanted to be thought out of step.
So no wonder three co-founders of the movement might have felt they deserved to celebrate a little as their cause gained widespread attention.
In a video they released on YouTube last year to mark the first anniversary of George Floyd's death at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, the trio - Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Melina Abdullah - toasted each other with champagne.
The mood was jubilant: they were leading a group that had received a jaw-dropping $90million (£69million) in donations in 2020 alone. And yet it hadn't been entirely plain-sailing.
Patrisse Cullors, the movement's co-founder and until last year its executive director, was incensed by criticism she'd received from what she called a 'Right-wing-media machine just leveraging literally all its weight against me, against our movement, against BLM the organisation'.
She added: 'It's because we're powerful, because we are winning. It's because we are threatening the establishment, we're threatening white supremacy.'
She was mainly referring to a 2021 story in the New York Post that revealed how, since the BLM movement took off, she'd spent $3.2million (£2.5million) buying four homes, including three in LA and another in Atlanta, Georgia, with an aircraft hangar.
Cullors insisted she'd paid for the properties with money earned from public speaking and book sales.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Shakedown of US corporations don’t appear to be bothered by it it’s a win win deal for them a tax brake and con the people that they care money ensues.
As W.C. Fields said never smarten up a chump.
George Floyd was not murdered. He died from the fentanyl he swallowed while the police approached him. He was selling the fentanyl to others.
How many people did George Floyd kill with the drugs he was selling?
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