Posted on 07/14/2020 3:58:29 PM PDT by karpov
The Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic group founded by the business magnate George Soros, announced on Monday that it was investing $220 million in efforts to achieve racial equality in America, a huge financial undertaking that will support several Black-led racial justice groups for years to come.
The initiative, which comes amid national protests for racial equality and calls for police reform ignited by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, will immediately reshape the landscape of Black political and civil rights organizations, and signals the extent to which race and identity have become the explicit focal point of American politics in recent years, with no sign of receding. Mr. Soros, who has at times faced smears and anti-Semitism over his role as a liberal megadonor, is also positioning his foundation near the forefront of the protest movement.
Of the $220 million, the foundation will invest $150 million in five-year grants for selected groups, including progressive and emerging organizations like the Black Voters Matter Fund and Repairers of the Breach, a group founded by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign. The money will also support more established Black civil rights organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative, which was founded by the civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson and depicted in the 2019 movie “Just Mercy.”
The Open Society Foundations will invest an additional $70 million in local grants supporting changes to policing and criminal justice. This money will also be used to pay for opportunities for civic engagement and to organize internships and political training for young people.
Patrick Gaspard, the president of the Open Society Foundations, said in an interview that the group believed the investment was about harnessing the momentum toward racial justice, but also giving organizations room to think long-term.
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He needs to go
Yep, foreign influence and money is OK as long as it benefits the Left. But let Trump make a phone call to Putin and there’ll be calls for impeachment.
So when do we arrest Soros for fomenting sedition and insurrection.
“....He needs to go...”
Along with his evil spawn and all those organizations.
Who let this POS into the country and gave him citizenship in the first place? MOSSAD should have taken his sorry azz out a long time ago.
I’m kind of surprised the NY Slimes is actually reporting this...
Soros, his adult “children,” and his foundations all need to be destroyed.
Ensuring blacks and other minorities will be used as cannon fodder for decades to come. Whole lot of middle managers are going to make a fortune off of that cannon fodder.
The Dems go on and on about Nazis but they take all the money they can get from this Nazi
Soros is an international criminal and communist who has pledged to destroy America. Don’t we have a marker we could call in from the MOSSAD?
He won’t be happy until we have a full blown CIVIL WAR...
I thought we looked down on people who fund terrorism
What if each elderly black lady who has to choose between peanut butter and enough medication prescription were given Soros cash? Or some Soros money went to a woman raising two kids who now can’t meet the rent after her restaurant waitress job was stopped twice by an out of control Dem governor’s shutdown? Soros billions could help all such people of all races. But he wants a Marxist revolution so no dice.
Note: Two capitalists gave hundreds of millions to do good things: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford. Not to fund local Marxist prosecutors to undermine justice. Times change.
Yup
They want you demoralized so they trumpet their big $$$.
That Gollum is wicked and evil.
Note a dime for black led businesses ravaged by his minions.
This POS is still breathing because we can say, “we are better than that.” Imagine our parents looking at what America has become. Soft, squishy, gutless, stupid and lazy.
A fool and his money......
Those truly suffering in this country (USA) and worldwide don’t get his attention. He’s interested only in organizations which can destroy the country.
“”Don’t we have a marker we could call in from the MOSSAD?””
Beats me WHY Israel has let him off the hook. We’ve been told for years they have a warrant out for his arrest. After this long, that would seem not to be true.
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