Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations

washingtontimes.com ^ | Aug. 16, 2016 | Valerie Richardson

[PROCON]

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.

“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America,” said the Borealis announcement.

In doing so, however, the foundations have aligned themselves with the staunch left-wing platform of the Movement for Black Lives, which unveiled a policy agenda shortly after the fund was announced accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide.”

[pilipo]

The WTimes,with respect to accuracy, has a better record than the wcompost, nyslimes, and every other leftist rag out there.

[Krosan]

When did that happen? Washington Times is still the tiny paper playing on name similarity and owned by the Korean Moon Church, isn’t it?

[pilipo]

"Washington Times is still the tiny paper playing on name similarity and owned by the Korean Moon Church, isn’t it?

Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, started the paper in 1982 after the Washington Star folded. I was living in DC at the time and for many years after. When the Star was no more, I lamented at the time that if any town needed 2 papers with opposing views, it was certainly DC.

Everyone assumed that Moon would use the paper as a Unification propaganda tool. Never happened. He - as promised - kept his editorial and managements hands off of it and let the paper do its own thing except for keeping it financially supported.

It is not a perfect paper, yet it is my opinion that the paper continues to suffer from a reputation that was assumed on word of mouth as opposed to legitimate evaluation.

I made it a point to critically evaluate the paper for its relative objectivity. It's not perfect, but the Wtimes gives the other side of the story. They rightly and deservedly are considered a right wing paper, though their attempt at balance draws criticism from the right.

As an aside, I have copies of the last issue of the Star and the first issue of the WTimes.

[Ms Mable]

I have little doubt Bill Ayers is involved with them. Right up him and Bernadine’s alley. Helter Skelter

[DonPaulJonesII]

I humbly stand corrected. Missed the part where they sold all interest in FMC. Thanks for the lesson!

[Bellflower]

Huge marches with different races hand and hand should be organized around the cry of “all lives matter, one Nation under God”. We need to get off from our behinds and counter this garbage.

[Enlightened1]

For any Freeper Police Officers active and retired.

Please notify your fellow officer police friends and family of this article.

The Globalist/Establishment are helping a group that targets police officers. The goal of the Ford Foundation is to destroy the trust between the police and the communities in order to bring in the U.N.

This is why the Globalist are funding BLM to stir things up. Please let this word get out.

Just know the majority of Americans love you and do not hate you like the Globalist/Establishment controlled media says. We know if it was not for your bravery, then our communities would not be safe.