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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In 1963, Rick Centner, member of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at UC Berkeley, lectured me on the evils of race miscegination - mixed marriages. The YAF was Barry Goldwater’s youth brigades. This by way of preface that I suppose it would be impossible to wish for some announced Republican PARTY OF LINCOLN initiative to aid the black community rid itself of drugs, unemployment, fatherless families... Yah, that’s what I thought, all manner of reason why that wouldn’t happen. I did mention the PARTY OF LINCOLN part, right?
There you have it.
He’s funding terrorist groups inside the United States.
Sadly, Barr is too busy not turning out any indictments for
the Coupgate conspirators.
Bkmk
Ballsac eyes should be on any international MOST WANTED list.
Will no one RICO for us this turbulent communist?
I find it very difficult to believe that George Soros has not violated multiple laws in his pursuit of destroying America!
Where is the FBI when we REALLY NEED THEM?
They arrest roger stone and let this POS live
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