Posted on 07/10/2022 1:14:18 PM PDT by Libloather
Three months have passed since the national Black Lives Matter group announced the launch of an art fellowship program used to justify its secret purchase of a $6 million Los Angeles mansion, but the charity hasn't even begun to accept applications for the program.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation announced the fellowship program just days before New York magazine revealed in early April the charity had secretly purchased the property with donor cash in October 2020. BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors filmed videos at the property for her personal YouTube channel, held private events at the compound, and stayed at the mansion for days at a time during the 19-month period BLM concealed its purchase of the property from the public and its donors.
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BLM said in an Instagram post in April that "application details will be announced in the near future" for the fellowship program. But the charity has since made no apparent effort to bring the program to fruition.
BLM also tweeted in April that it purchased the mansion, which it calls the "Creator's House," to "provide a space for Black folks to share their gifts with the world and hone their craft as they see fit, under the conditions that work best for them and outside systems of oppression in creative industries."
BLM indicated on its website in May that it was nowhere close to launching the fellowship program.
"We will have more concrete plans for the Creator's House once we have further built out internal infrastructure and staff, but the plan remains to use the space for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship to share their gifts with the world and hone their craft as they see fit," BLM disclosed on a section of its website dubbed the "Transparency Center."
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Maybe its actually a tart fellowship.
And yet the Indianapolis Star had a LOVELY (sic) article about black artists being oppressed in the paper today.
Perhaps this is what BLM spent their money on - puff racist pieces to grift the narrative makers.
Art fellowships! ROTFLMAO! How much talent do those idiots need to paint “Black Lives Matter” on a two lane with a 3 inch paint brush?
Still waiting to hear “All the money’s gone, there are no records, and if you arrest anyone for anything involving it, it’s racism”.
A ____ and his _____ soon are parted.
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